Milan Kundera

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman read more

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.