Amber’s Reviews > The Unbearable Lightness Of Being > Status Update

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust, swirling into the air, as whatever will not exit tomorrow.

What happens but once might as well have not had happened at all.

Questions that have no answers are the best as they push humans to explore the impossible.

And Sabina? What had come over her? Nothing..... her drama was not a drama of heaviness but of lightness... what fell to her was not a burden but an unbearable lightness of being..

Noise masked as music!

"Being in a foreign country means walking on a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family and friends and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language which he has known from childhood."

"Without realising it, the individual composes their life according to the laws of beauty even in the times of greatest distress.... "
Anna Karenina could've chosen another way to die, but the dark beauty of the motif of death by train was just too beautiful to miss no matter how novelistic!

His outsider's status raised him above the rest. Something else raised him above the others as well. He had an open book on his table.... in Teresa's eyes books were the emblem of a secret brotherhood.