Милан Кундера цитаты

счастье
Источник: Невыносимая лёгкость бытия

образ
Источник: Бессмертие

Identity (1998), p. 78

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Identity (1998), pg 63

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Источник: Encounter

Pg 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

Pg 82
Identity (1998)

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

As quoted in The Canine Hiker's Bible (2000) by Doug Gelbert, p. 8

pg 233
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

pg 71
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

Источник: Ignorance

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight, p. 4

pg 27
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 10
Вариант: Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ], pp. 217-218
Контексте: Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Identity (1998), p 40

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p. 59

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Контексте: What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ], pp. 217-218
Контексте: Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Part I: Lost Letters (p. 22)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Контексте: People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Контексте: Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say “totalitarian,” what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree “Be fruitful and multiply.”