Milan Kundera Quotes

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I don't need a man in my life.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

All we ask is to be let alone.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

I have my own life to live.

People should just let me be.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

I wouldn't want to be in a relationship where I'm not even free to be myself.