The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us. (Yes, if you’re looking for infinity, just close your eyes!)

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Then what was the relationship between Tereza and her body? Had her body the right to call itself Tereza? And if not, then what did the name refer to? Merely something incorporeal, intangible?

Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man’s care.

The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.

Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.