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Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
* He studied music and philosophy at the University of Charles in Prague.
* He began writing fiction in the 1950s and published his first novel, The Joke, in 1967.
* Kundera was a vocal critic of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia and was forced to flee the country in 1975.
* He has lived in France since then and writes exclusively in French.
* Kundera's novels are known for their humor, irony, and philosophical insights.
* Some of his most famous works include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Immortality.
* Kundera is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

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Love

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I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

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Love

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Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

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Romance

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Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

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Wisdom

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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Love

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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

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Life

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Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

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Life

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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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Love

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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.