“By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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