See?” Jenny said. “That was good. A comforting gesture, and completely unprompted on my part. You’re a
quick study. Even you will have to admit that, despite your appeal to logic, touch works. All the cold in me flows to you.”
“Cold can’t flow,” he said, pulling her closer. “Only heat.
Thermodynamically speaking—”
“Gareth?”
He looked down.
“Don’t ruin this.”
He didn’t.


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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
MILAN KUNDERA
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on...
MILAN KUNDERA
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...
MILAN KUNDERA
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
MILAN KUNDERA
Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't under...
MILAN KUNDERA
This protein is expressed in the human uterus.
MILAN BAGCHI
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
MILAN KUNDERA
He also has a goal-scoring prowess which has seen him score regularly at every level he has played.
MILAN MANDARIC
I'm the kind of person who will help you hide a dead body, but turn your back against me and remembe...
MILAN STOJILOVIC
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...
MILAN KUNDERA
Then the wheels on the bus fell off. We just never got our swagger back.
MILAN BROWN
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...
MILAN KUNDERA
You can't lose if you are on both sides.
MILAN STOJILOVIC
Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alívio...
MILAN KUNDERA
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of th...
MILAN KUNDERA
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at...
MILAN KUNDERA
given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that whi...
MILAN KUNDERA
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals we...
MILAN KUNDERA
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to impr...
MILAN KUNDERA
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they ...
MILAN KUNDERA
Not only have people stopped trying to be
attractive when they are out among other people, but...
MILAN KUNDERA
In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to u...
MILAN KUNDERA
Kevin is a great player, like (Villa substitute Juan Pablo) Angel. He gave me a great ball and it wa...
MILAN BAROS
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
MILAN KUNDERA
I can't believe Gordon Taylor is singling out Pompey in his views. He should look around the Premier...
MILAN MANDARIC
Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same a...
MILAN KUNDERA
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is ...
MILAN KUNDERA
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothes...
MILAN KUNDERA
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from t...
MILAN KUNDERA
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...
MILAN KUNDERA
Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is t...
MILAN KUNDERA
Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where...
MILAN KUNDERA
It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...
MILAN KUNDERA
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...
MILAN KUNDERA
On Jennifer Lopez, who had a big hit with Play which was written by Christina: At the studio she sai...
CHRISTINA MILAN
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our em...
MILAN KUNDERA
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
MILAN KUNDERA
I find myself fascinating.
MILAN KUNDERA
This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ...
MILAN KUNDERA
This is an uprising of a humiliated and impoverished nation.
MILAN PROTIC
Knowledge and skill is all you will ever need, if you can rob a the worlds most secure bank and get ...
MILAN STOJILOVIC
Why climb to the top of you won't look down?
MILAN STOJILOVIC
In today's society we look down so much that when we say "look up" we really mean look forward.
MILAN STOJILOVIC
People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
MILAN KUNDERA
Having had occasion in the past to observe Communist statesmen, I saw with surprise that they were o...
MILAN KUNDERA
We are assuming that the shock from a flu epidemic would be even bigger than from SARS.
MILAN BRAHMBHATT
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
MILAN KUNDERA
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength,"...
MILAN KUNDERA
Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all...
MILAN KUNDERA
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows n...
MILAN KUNDERA
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
MILAN KUNDERA
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
MILAN KUNDERA
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We ...
MILAN KUNDERA
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
MILAN KUNDERA
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever...
MILAN KUNDERA
A single metaphor can give birth to love.
MILAN KUNDERA
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as...
MILAN KUNDERA
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me t...
MILAN KUNDERA
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed...
MILAN KUNDERA
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
MILAN KUNDERA