“he no longer dreams of flight
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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