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  • #1
    Milan Kundera
    “The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #2
    Milan Kundera
    “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #3
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #4
    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #5
    Milan Kundera
    “And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #6
    Milan Kundera
    “Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #7
    Milan Kundera
    “And therein lies the whole of man's plight. 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.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #8
    Milan Kundera
    “Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love

  • #9
    Milan Kundera
    “Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: 241

  • #10
    Milan Kundera
    “True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #11
    Milan Kundera
    “On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #12
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #16
    Michelle Obama
    “The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #17
    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #18
    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #19
    Milan Kundera
    “The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #20
    Franz Kafka
    “Selfishness is one of the surest signs of profound unhappiness.”
    Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

  • #21
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    J. D. Salinger

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #28
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #29
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain



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