"Identity" Quotes
"Identity" by Milan Kundera explores the fragile nature of personal identity and the complexities of human relationships through the story of a couple whose perceptions of each other shift dramatically.
fiction | 66 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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.
The soul is the prison of the body.
The only way to give meaning to the life of the body is to create a life for the soul.
I think the world would be a better place if we all just tried to be our true selves.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
