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in infinity every event, no matter how trivial, would meet up with its consequence and unfold into a story.

Other than Bettina's book about Goethe, I don't see any immortality. All I see is the intimate life of some random characters :(

Who's Rubens? the novel is about to end and kundera is still introducing new characters? oh dear!

Love or the cloister.

now I see why Kundera writes this way. He says "If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way thatthey cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold".Kunera also says "These novels are like a narrow street along which someone drives his characters with a whip". Still I don't like Kundera's strategy.

When did Agnes die and how? This Kundera is worse than Agatha Christie; he doesn’t play fair @ all!!!

I doubt Bettina loved anyone but herself. She used the tools of love to get the figures that will feed her love for herself. I find it annoying that he keeps going back to Goethe and Beethoven.

Can we possibly imagine love without anxiously following our image in the mind of the beloved?When we are no longer interested in how we are seen by the person we love, it means we no longer love.

You are the brilliant ally of your own gravediggers

I'm lost...he swam far away from the main story...I even forgot the names of the main characters :(

Ray Bradbury once said, "Find something you love to do, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

His eyes....I struck my fingers in his eyes!

Are you objecting that advertisin and propaganda cannot be compared, because one serves commerce and the other ideology?

But on whom are the journalists dependent? On those who pay them.

My own writer's notebook is divided into sections for character details, dialogue, setting descriptions, article leads, themes, and scary plot twists...smaller notepads in my purse...write on only one side of the page....simply cut the notes and tape them in the proper section of the large notebook.

The very persons who took away my time and space are the ones who have given me something to say (by Katherine Paterson)

The secret to feelings like a writer and being respected as one by friends and family is merely to write. Often. Even daily.

The legendary children's editor Ursula Nordstorm was once asked what qualified her- a nonlibrarian, nonteacher, non parent, and noncollege graduate"- to publish children's books. She replied, "Well, I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing."

after all, when you give someone a present, you want to do so out of love, you want to give your friend a piece of yourself, a piece of your heart!

في كل مطار ينتصر الفراق وتنفرط مسبحة العشاق

There are two methods for cultivating the uniqueness of the self: the method of addition and the method of subtraction

سخاؤنا العاطفي يا عزيزتي سببه يتمنا لا حزننا، لا أكثر سخاء من اليتامى. نحن على كثرتنا أمة يتيمة مذ تخلى التاريخ عنا ونحن هكذا

إذا كان الدسم عدوي الأول, وأين هي عداوة الزيت ومكيدة الزبدة وغدر السجائر ومؤامرة السكر ودسائس الملح من غدر الأصدقاء وحسد الزملاء وظلم الأقرباء ونفاق الرفاق ورعب الإرهابيين ومذلة الوطن؟ اليس كثيرا كل هذه العداوات على شخص واحد؟

the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born

Not only have poeple sotpped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

it is gestures that use us as their instruments as their bearers and incarnations

الصورة هي محاولة يائسة لتحنيط الزمن

واليوم أيضا لم يتغير شيء. كل جاهل يثأر لجهله بقتل مثقف بعد المزايدة عليه في الإيمان والتشكيك في ولائه للوطن

ثمة حكمة لا تبلغها إلا في عز وحدتك وغربتك

حتى أنهم في انشغالهم بالبحث عن ذريعة لموت جميل نسوا لماذا هم يموتون بينما أثناء إنشغالنا نحن بالبقاء أحياء نسينا أن نحيا فلا هؤلاء هنئوا بموتهم ولا نحن نعمنا بحياتنا