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“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born and have tasted life and declare it so good that is merits being duplicated.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“The only thing that makes me somewhat sceptical regarding human procreation is the unintelligent selection of parents. Some of the most unattractive individuals in the world feel they must multiply at all costs. They are apparently under the illusion that the burden of ugliness becomes lighter if it is shared with descendants.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe