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Another excellent collection of Kundera's essays on the novel, the history of the novel and the meaning of being an artist.
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"One instant of ecstasy weighed more than a whole lifetime. The lover's lifetime faced the instant of ecstasy from roughly the same inferior status as the finite has facing eternity. Man desires eternity, but all he can get is its imitation: the instant of ecstasy."
"The only thing I deeply, avidly wanted was a lucid, unillusioned eye. I finally found it in t ...more
Some highlights:
"One instant of ecstasy weighed more than a whole lifetime. The lover's lifetime faced the instant of ecstasy from roughly the same inferior status as the finite has facing eternity. Man desires eternity, but all he can get is its imitation: the instant of ecstasy."
"The only thing I deeply, avidly wanted was a lucid, unillusioned eye. I finally found it in t ...more
Oct 08, 2009
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
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Gary Dale
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Jan 21, 2021
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marked it as bibliocurious
