1. The heaviest burden also becomes the image of the strongest vitality. The heavier the burden, the more real we become. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

2. Women cannot see the slightest touch in debauched obsession: because men do not place a subjective ideal on women. , they are interested in all women and no one will disappoint them. indeed. There is something shameful about never being disappointed. In the eyes of the world, the obsession of a bohemian is unforgivable (because there is never atonement for disappointment). ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

3. Once a person chooses to join politics, he must be very willing to regard the public as his judge, and wishfully and naively believe that he can This is how you win people's hearts. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

4. Why does God laugh when he sees people thinking? That's because people are thinking but cannot grasp the truth. Because the more people think, the more distant one person's thoughts are from another person's thoughts. ——Milan Kundera

5. Love always makes up beautiful stories for itself. Once love occurs, it will start to sound like a fantasy. ——Milan Kundera "Joke"

6. He will always be jealous of Marchetta, which is a wound he cut in the initial stage of their love. The sight of her in another woman's arms almost brought him to his knees and begged her for forgiveness. ——Milan Kundera, "The Record of Laughter and Forgetting"

7. I said to myself: Even if I could remove these completely unnecessary days from my life, what would be the use? Anyway, from the beginning of the postcard joke, the entire history of my life was born out of mistakes. It occurred to me with sudden horror that the things conceived by error are also real, just like those conceived by conscience and necessity. ——Milan Kundera "Joke"

8. Fun, whether ordinary or extraordinary, only belongs to those who feel it. ——Milan Kundera "Slow"

9. When forgetting speed, maybe we are moving towards speed step by step. ——Milan Kundera

10. Time has turned the couple into twins. They have the same vocabulary, the same ideas, and the same destiny. ——Milan Kundera, "The Record of Laughter and Forgetting"

11. When I am with him, I don’t need to change my ideals, my hobbies, he is an easy-going person, Simple and crystal clear, I like this. ——Milan Kundera "Joke"

A ruined value and a debunked fantasy are equally pitiful. They are very similar, and the two are too easily confused. ——Milan Kundera "Joke"

13. There is a clear lie on the surface, but behind it is an obscure truth. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

14. People can never know what they want, because people can only live once, and they can neither compare it with previous lives nor compare it with previous lives. Revise it in the next life. There is no way to test which choice is good because there is no comparison. Everything is experienced immediately, only this time, and cannot be prepared. ——Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

15. Meeting is a matter of two people, but leaving is a decision of one person. Meeting is a beginning, but leaving is to meet the next departure. . This is a world where leaving is popular, but none of us are good at saying goodbye. ——Milan Kundera

16. A person can betray his parents, husband, country and love, but if his parents, husband, country and love are all lost - what else can be betrayed? ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

17. Warmth only comes when we have reached adulthood and recall with fear the benefits of childhood that we could not have realized in childhood. to exist. Warmth is the fear that adulthood brings us.

Warmth is the attempt to build an artificial space, and in this artificial space, treat others as children. Warmth is also the fear of the physiological reaction of love, and it is an attempt to make love escape from the adult world (in the adult world, love is insidious, compulsory, and carries a heavy body and responsibility) and to treat a woman as a child. ——Milan Kundera, "Living Elsewhere"

18. She thought that the artist's love might be entirely due to misunderstanding, and she kept asking him why he loved her. He always replied that he loved her as a boxer loves a butterfly, a singer loves silence, a villain loves a village girl. He always said that he loved her as the butcher loved the timid eyes of the calf, and as the lightning loved the quiet, rustic roof. So he loves her because she is different from him. He destroys her, destroys her, and then recreates her as he desires. ——Milan Kundera "Living Elsewhere"

19. We say that some things have become our huge burden. We either bear this burden or are overwhelmed by it. Our struggles may succeed or fail. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

20. I have always believed that words are slow history. Real literature is not to make our lives faster, but to make our lives faster. The slowness in life will never be lost - Milan Kundera

21. The only thing we can do is to resist the human condition that is not our choice. ——Milan Kundera "Slow"

22. The unbearable lightness of life, that is, the dissociation of the individual, away from the whole to which it is attached. This dissociation leads to a lack of belonging, which is unbearable. ——Milan Kundera

23. Any woman measures her aging by the amount of interest a man shows in her body. ——Milan Kundera, "Identity"

24. We have known for a long time that the world cannot be overthrown, transformed, or blocked from its unfortunate progress. There is only one possible resistance: not to take it seriously. But I see that our joke has lost its power. ——Milan Kundera "Celebrating Meaninglessness"

25. Jealousy is not a lovely character, but if people do not abuse it (if it is accompanied by humility), its All the wrongdoings were smoothed out, and it had a moving quality that I can't describe. ——Milan Kundera, "Funny Love"

26. He knew very well that his memory was hating him and slandering him; so he tried not to believe everything it told him, Treat your life with as much grace as possible. But it was in vain: he felt no pleasure in looking back, and therefore tried not to look. ——Milan Kundera, "Ignorance"

27. The persecuted are not nobler than the persecutors. I can totally imagine the role swapping. You, in this line of reasoning, you can see a desire to erase responsibility and place it on the Creator of man to be truthful about man. Maybe it would be better if you could look at the problem this way. For to conclude that there is no difference between sinners and victims is to give up all hope. And this, this is what people call hell, my little baby. ——Milan Kundera "Farewell Waltz"

28. He is in another life, in another story. He cannot save the life that he is no longer present in the life he is currently in. But the world outside the window is even more beautiful. And if he abandons the woman he loves for this, the world will be precious because he paid the price of betrayal of love. ——Milan Kundera "Living Elsewhere"

29. God has died in the fire of heaven, and only the tender sun can shine on the earth. ——Milan Kundera

30. What you care about is always the person you are least able to grasp and understand, no matter whether it is a man or a woman. You feel that you can't fully possess it, and you worry about gains and losses. This kind of feeling makes people anxious, but also makes you enjoy it, and you can't stop wanting to get it all.

——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

31. Meeting is just the beginning, leaving is to meet the next departure; this is a world where leaving is popular, but none of us Good at saying goodbye. ——Milan Kundera

32. What is necessary is important, and what is important is valuable. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

33. Dreams turn different periods in a person's life into equal values, and level everything a person has lived. It lends itself to a simultaneity that is unbearable; the dream denies the privileged status of the present, making it less important. The true and only meaning of friendship: to provide the other person with a mirror in which he can see his former self. Without friends nagging endlessly about the memories, this image might have been erased forever. ——Milan Kundera "Identity"

34. People only know reality in the past time. People don’t recognize the situation it is in at the present moment, in the moment it is passing by, in the moment it exists. Yet the real present does not resemble the memory of it. Recollection is not the negation of forgetting, but recollection is a form of forgetting. ——Milan Kundera, "The Will"

35. Unique people, when they succeed in making others respect their uniqueness, will have a pretty beautiful life. ——Milan Kundera "Farewell Waltz"

36. My friend, I ask you to be a happy person. I have a vague impression that our only hope depends on your ability to be a happy person. ——Milan Kundera "Slow"

37. I hate listening to the beating of my heart: it is a ruthless reminder that the minutes and seconds of my life are counting. ——Milan Kundera

38. Two people love each other and are willing to be alone and isolated from the world. This is a beautiful thing. But what do they use to nourish their daily face-to-face encounters? As despising as the world was, they needed it to carry on the conversation. ——Milan Kundera "Identity"

39. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives are to the earth. ——Milan Kundera

40. The only way to escape degradation is to flee to the sublime! ——Milan Kundera, "Living Elsewhere"

41. Can people have fun, live, and be happy at the same time? Is the hedonistic ideal feasible? Does such hope exist? There is always a glimmer of hope like this, right? ——Milan Kundera, "Slowness"

42. Love means the removal of force. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

43. In the end What prompted these people to commit such despicable actions? Is it viciousness? Of course, but there is also the desire for order. Because the desire for order will transform the human world into an inorganic rule. In this world, all operations and operations are all subject to an inhuman will. The desire for order is also the desire for death, because life is a permanent violation of order. Or, conversely, the desire for order is a legitimate excuse whereby man's hatred of man can openly conceal his sin. ——Milan Kundera "Farewell Waltz"

44. What disgusted her was far from the ugliness of the world, but the beautiful masks the world wore. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Life"

45. People expect immortality, but they ignore that immortality and death are meaningful together. ——Milan Kundera, "Immortality"

46. Erotic relationships can fill the entire adult life.

But if this period of life is too long, will boredom kill the ability to be excited before the physical strength fades? Because there is a huge difference between the first time, the tenth time, the hundredth time, the thousandth time or the ten thousandth time, where the repetitive behavior becomes stereotyped or comical or even impossible. boundaries? If this boundary is crossed, what will happen to the love between a man and a woman? Will it disappear? Or, conversely, do lovers regard the sexual phase of their lives as a wild prehistoric period of true love? Answering these questions is as easy as imagining the mental state of the inhabitants of a strange planet. ——Milan Kundera "Ignorance"

47. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two unrelated emotions. The former is lust - sensual enjoyment; the latter is love - mutual affection. ——Milan Kundera

48. When the heart is speaking, it is inappropriate to point out loud objections. In the kingdom of kitsch, the tyranny of the soul is exercised. ——Milan Kundera (Flashpoint Love Talk Network) "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

49. The hatred for Hitler finally faded away, which exposed the profound moral depravity of a world. The basic point on which this world is based is the non-existence of return. Because in this world, everything is forgiven in advance and everything is ridiculously allowed. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

50. It's so beautiful to do something that you don't care about at all. As soon as he gets off work, he can forget about work, and Thomas finally realizes the happiness of these people. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

51. From now on, I begin to choose my life carefully, and I will no longer easily let myself get lost in various temptations. I have heard the call from afar in my heart, and I no longer need to look back and care about all the rights and wrongs and discussions behind me. I have no time to care about the past, I want to move forward. ——Milan, sad signature? Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

52. How solid things will always be made up one by one The construction of fragile objects is like our identification with our own identities. Different identities have different fragility, but they also have the strength to represent their identity. The superposition of identities is the superposition of strength and vulnerability. So we will look at our lover's eyes and not want to leave, because those eyes are slow time, in which we will let go of our fragility and strength, and find the love of loneliness and happiness - Milan Kundera's "Identity"

53. The two people never move their eyes away, because they know that their respective identities are tolerated, hidden, and stored in each other's eyes. That fragile gaze connects them and is by their side. Forming a white balcony that represents their loneliness and happiness. ——Milan Kundera, "Identity"

54. The worst thing is that he appreciates her far more than he loves her; he always says to himself that a girl can only be loyal and pure if she is loyal and pure. Only within the boundary can she have a sense of reality. Once she crosses this boundary, it is very simple, she ceases to exist; once she crosses this boundary, she is no longer herself, just like water is no longer water once it passes the boiling point. . ——Milan Kundera, "Funny Love"

55. "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but... that this humiliation is seen by everyone. The essence of shame is not It is not our personal fault, but the shame of being seen by others - milan kundera "Criminal Minds" 56. Happiness comes from the disappearance of that dualism, but from happiness to doubt, the distance is. It wasn't too far away, and she was filled with doubt. ——Milan Kundera "Funny Love"

57. Infatuation is a kind of devouring.

——Milan Kundera

58. In fact, our most ordinary experiences illustrate one thing (especially when our lives have been prolonged too long). Sadly, people’s faces They are all the same (the avalanche of population growth only reinforces this feeling), the faces are confusing, and the differences between one face and another are only in some very subtle ways, almost It is imperceptible and, mathematically speaking, the difference is often just a few millimeters in size terms. Coupled with our historical experience, we also know that people's behaviors imitate each other. Statistically speaking, people's attitudes can be calculated and their opinions can be manipulated. Therefore, people are not so much an individual (a subject), rather than an element in a totality. ——Milan Kundera "Encounter"

59. The ultimate pursuit is illusion. ——Milan Kundera

60. What is he looking for in women? What attracted him to them? Is not physical love an infinite repetition of a unified process? ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

61. Let us put it another way: all love relationships are based on some unwritten contracts. These unwritten contracts are People in love carelessly sign it during the first few weeks of their relationship. They were still living in a dream, but at the same time, unknowingly, they signed the detailed terms of their contract like stubborn jurists. oh! Lovers, you should be more careful in this dangerous early stage of love! If you bring breakfast to him or her these days, you must bring it to him or her every day in the future, otherwise you will be accused of being unloving or unfaithful. ——Milan Kundera, "The Record of Laughter and Forgetting"

62. Everything happened according to his own wishes; however, seeing his watch on another person's wrist made him baffled. Feeling uncomfortable. He felt as if he were back in the world, like a dead man rising from the grave after twenty years; he stumbled over the wreckage of his life with a foot that had lost the habit of walking: he saw his trousers, His tie was worn by the survivors, and they shared everything as a matter of course; he saw everything, but could take nothing back: the dead are cowardly. ——Milan Kundera "Ignorance"

63. It is already the end of the dream. The most wonderful moment is when one dream is still going on and another dream is approaching, and then he wakes up. The hands that touched him, the hands that touched him as he stood motionless in the background of the mountains, belonged to the woman in another dream, a dream that he was about to fall into, but Xavier was not yet Know that at this moment, these hands only exist alone, just as hands; a pair of miraculous hands in the vast space; hands between two adventures, two empty spaces; that is, they do not belong to the body nor the hands of the head. ——Milan Kundera "Living Elsewhere"

64. Sleep is not the antonym of life for him; sleep is life for him, and life is a dream. He passed from dream to dream as from one life to that. ——Milan Kundera "Living Elsewhere"

65. When kitsch is regarded as a lie, kitsch must come from a non-kitsch situation. Kitsch, once it loses its imperious power, is as touching as any human frailty. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

66. Everything will eventually be forgotten, and at the same time, nothing can be undone. The function of redemption (either through revenge or forgiveness) must be based on forgetting. No one can undo the mistakes that have been made, but all mistakes will be forgotten. ——Milan Kundera, "Joke"

67. He looked at her and thought that he was so beautiful, so beautiful that it was hard to leave, but the world outside the window was even more beautiful, and if he For this reason, he abandons the woman he loves, and the world will be precious because he paid the price of betrayal of love.

——Milan Kundera, "Living Elsewhere"

68. When an artist talks about another artist, he is actually always talking about himself (indirectly or in a roundabout way). The significance of his evaluation It is also shown here. ——Milan Kundera, "Encounter"

69. The moment when the war is about to end reveals a truth, a mediocre but fundamental, eternal but forgotten truth: in the face of the living, the dead are there. They have an overwhelming advantage in numbers, not just the dead after the war, but every dead in every era, dead in the past, dead in the future; they know their superiority, they laugh at us, they laugh at the way we live. This island of time laughs at the tiny time of New Europe. They make us understand the insignificance and fleetingness of it all... ——Milan Kundera, "Encounter"

70 Wildlife biologist Sylvester Sorolla believes that everything that happens in life provides people with an opportunity to choose love and overcome fear. All good things in life are the result of choosing love. By love I mean our innate joy, hope, and acceptance of spiritual pursuits. Emotions that are part of fear include: feeling that you are not good enough, that your achievements are not great enough, and that society tells you that achievement comes from acquiring material things. But, deep down you realize that there is more to life than that, and that desire is the desire for love. ——Milan Kundera

71. The accelerated advancement of history has profoundly changed the existence of individuals. In past centuries, an individual's existence from birth to death occurred in the same historical period, but now it spans two periods, and sometimes more. Although the speed of history in the past was much slower than human life, today the speed of history is much faster. History is running away from human beings, causing the continuity and consistency of life to be fragmented. ——Milan Kundera, "Encounter"

72. The vast majority of people grow up in an Eden-like circle between their home and their work. They live in a world beyond In a peaceful realm above good and evil. They feel disgusted from the bottom of their hearts when they see a murderer. But, at the same time, just getting them out of this quiet realm is enough to turn them into muddle-headed murderers. There are tests and temptations that humanity can only endure through the remote interference of history. No one can resist it. ——Milan Kundera "Farewell Waltz"

73. Life is like composing music. Under the guidance of beauty, people turn accidental events into a theme, and then record them in the movement of life. Just as a composer composes the main melody of a sonata, the themes of life also appear repeatedly, replayed, revised, and extended. Anna could have ended her life in any other way, but the combination of the unforgettable theme of the station, death, and the emergence of love seduced her with its desolate beauty at the moment of her despair. People compose the music of life according to the law of beauty, until the moment of deep despair arrives, but they know nothing about it. ——Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

74. I think this more and more often (this kind of thing is so obvious, but we don't realize it), people only exist in themselves In the specific age, everything changes with age. To understand another person is to understand the age he is crossing. ——Milan Kundera "Encounter"

75. Living in a foreign country is like walking on the air without any protection under your feet, but in your own country, no matter who you are, you have the motherland. Everything is very human, because in the motherland, you have your own family, colleagues, and friends, and you can easily understand them in the language you have been familiar with since childhood. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

76. In some countries, monitoring and controlling citizens is a basic and long-term social activity. ——Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Collection of Milan Kundera's classic sentences

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