Milan Kundera Quotes About Metaphor

• Las metáforas son peligrosas. El amor comienza con una metáfora. Es decir, el amor comienza en el momento en que una mujer introduce su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

  Milan Kundera

  Amor, Sueño, Recuerdos

• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

• ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

  Milan Kundera

  Carácter, Pensamiento, Personas

• A single metaphor can give birth to love.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

• When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

  Milan Kundera

  Revenge, Drama, Struggle

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

• Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

• When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

  Milan Kundera

  Kissing, Avid, Events

• Las metáforas son peligrosas. El amor comienza con una metáfora

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Metaphor

• Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

  Milan Kundera

  Unbearable, Metaphor, Dangerous

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