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“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
“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
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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