No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera

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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera

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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera

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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
~ Milan Kundera

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera

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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.
~ Milan Kundera

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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera

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