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Life is Elsewhere QUOTES

Life is Elsewhere QUOTES

1 " The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in love (she had even been willing to sacrifice her parents and their peaceful existence); in turn, she had expected her partner to invest an equal amount of capital of feelings in the common account. To redress the imbalance, she gradually withdrew her emotional deposit and after the wedding presented a proud, severe face to her husband. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

2 " Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

3 " But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to put his life on one of a pair of scales and death on the other. He wished each of his acts, indeed each day, each hour, each second of his life to be measured against the supreme criterion, which is death. That was why he wanted to march at the head of the column, to walk on a tightrope over an abyss, to have a halo of bullets around his head and thus to grow in everyone's eyes and become unlimited as death is unlimited. . . "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

4 " He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

5 " Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

6 " Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

7 " You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

8 " Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29) "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

9 " Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32) "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

10 " Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

11 " Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

12 " For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

13 " He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

14 " هل الرواية شيء آخر سوى فخ منصوب للبطل؟ "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

15 " life is like weeds "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

16 " You are beautiful," he said, "But I will have to leave you. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

17 " Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

18 " ...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

19 " Is not parody the eternal lot of man? "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere

20 " Yes, it's crazy.Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all. "

― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere