Milan Kundera

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo."

"In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body."

"I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare."

"Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."

"Milan Kundera" in The New York Times"

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