“for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
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