"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
― Milan Kundera
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Love
More From Milan Kundera
- "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
- "People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
- "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
More In Love
- "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."― Henry Ward Beecher
- "Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."― Christopher Marlowe
- "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."― W. H. Auden