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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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“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“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
“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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