Milan Kundera, Immortality Quotes

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.