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  1. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    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.
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  2. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    No, vertigo is something other than the 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.
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  3. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .
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  4. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
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  5. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.
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  6. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    What she had unexpectedly met there in the village church was not God; it was beauty. She knew perfectly well that neither the church nor the litany was beautiful in and of itself, but they were beautiful compared to the construction site, where she spent her days amid the racket of the songs. The mass was beautiful because it appeared to her in a sudden, mysterious revelation as a world betrayed.From that time on she had known that beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenary.
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  7. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.
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  8. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    A sudden happiness, a feeling of bliss, the joy that came of freedom and a new life - these were the gifts she had left him.
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  9. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love
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  10. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.
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  11. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross"
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  12. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Franz, on the other hand, was certain that the division of life into private and public spheres is the source of all lies: a person is one thing in private and something quite different in public. For Franz, living in truth meant breaking down the barriers between the private and the public. He was fond of quoting André Breton on the desirability of living "in a glass house" into which everyone can look and there are no secrets.
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