Milan Kundera, Encounter Quotes
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?