“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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