“فى اعتقادنا جميعًا أنه لا يُعقل لحب حياتنا أن يكون شيئا ما خفيفا، دون وزن. كلنا نتصور أن حبنا هو قدرنا وأن حياتنا من دونه لن تعود حياتنا. كما وأننا نقنع أنفسنا بأن بيتهوفين شخصيًا بجبينه المقطب وشعره الأشعث، يعزف من أجل حبنا الكبير لحن: "ليس من ذلك بدّ".”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“What is flirtation? One might say that it is behavior leading another to believe that sexual intimacy is possible, while preventing that possibility from becoming a certainty. In other words, flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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