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“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
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“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
“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”
― Experience and Education
― Experience and Education
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