Milan Kundera

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace."

Milan Kundera

Nature and Animals

"The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen."

Milan Kundera "Immortality"

Human

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Memory

Power and Weakness

"Optimism is the opium of the people."

Milan Kundera

Optimism and Hope

"Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Love

Memory