The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Источник: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Part Four: Lost Letters (p. 106)
Источник: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Контексте: The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!"
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
“I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”
Источник: Immortality
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p 49
“I have no mission. No one has.”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 160
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Four: Soul and Body
“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”
Источник: Immortality
Источник: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Контексте: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
Источник: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
Источник: Laughable Loves
“Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!”
Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being