

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
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“Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere

“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”
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“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Life Expectancy
― Life Expectancy
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