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Ukrainian nationalists inhabited a social and political world that had been penetrated by communism. The Ukrainian nationalists’ mode of expression was sufficiently similar to that of the Soviets that the Germans and local Orthodox bishops
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“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is no perfection only life”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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