Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ph : Craig Mcdean
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Why don’t you ever use your strength on me?“
she said.
Because love means renouncing strength,”
said Franz softly.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
– Milan Kundera –
… for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Why don’t you ever use your strength on me?“
she said.
Because love means renouncing strength,”
said Franz softly.
– Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because I’m happy that you exist at all …
Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are.
I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they do not live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist.
And that alone is enough for their happiness.
– Milan Kundera – Laughable Loves
Ph : Alex Freund
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 –
Ph : Melvin Sokolsky
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