Quotes by Kundera, Milan

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in th >>

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with >>

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going o >>

Quotations about Names

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would sm >>

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their >>

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help. >>

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Kundera, Milan