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“From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.”
― Milan Kundera

“He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.”
― Milan Kundera / میلان کوندرا

“He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

“I am obsessed with the process of creation.”
― Zdzilsaw Beksinski, The Fantastic Art of Beksinski

“You're broke, eh?"
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde