Milan Kundera - Woman Quotes

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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

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The gaze of a man has often been described. It seems to fasten coldly on the woman, as if it were measuring, weighing, evaluating, choosing her, as if, in other words, it were turning her into a thing.

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It is always that way: between the moment he meets her again and the moment he recognizes her for the woman he loves, he has some distance to go.

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The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

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Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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