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I have a strong will to love you for eternity.
— Milan Kundera
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.
— Milan Kundera
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)
— Milan Kundera
Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
— Milan Kundera
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
— Milan Kundera
Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.
— Milan Kundera
Now he too tried hard to think of something else (it was the only thing they had in common), so as to be able to go on making love to her.
— Milan Kundera
That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us
— Milan Kundera
Her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty.
— Milan Kundera
Then what do you care about?' 'Love', she said with a smile. 'Love?' Franz asked in amazement. 'Love is a battle', said Marie-Claude, still smiling. 'And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.' 'Love is a battle? said Franz. 'Well, I don't feel at all like fighting.' And he left.
— Milan Kundera
The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!
— Paulo Coelho
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.
— Paulo Coelho