“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Exactly what don't I think is beautiful? Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God. Anything.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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