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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

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Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Claims, Partners

"Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

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Men, Sad Life, Gentleman

Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

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Love Is, Men, Voice

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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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Art, Imagination, Modern

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book editing by George Plimpton, Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), 1988.

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Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

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Years, Long, Noise

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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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Love Is, Half, Unbearable

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

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Reason, Fragments, Existence

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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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Plato, Philosophy, Love Is

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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

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Suicide, Self, Guarantees That

Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

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Light, Darkness, Intense

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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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Laughing deeply is living deeply.

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Happiness, Laughing

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Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

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Weight, Gains, Burden

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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

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Spiritual, Angel, Warrior

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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

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Men, Forget, Immortality

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The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

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Morning, Age, Unseen

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Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

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Daughter, Mother, Children

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She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

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Sadness, Space, Together

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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

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Attitude, Men, Historical

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But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

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Happened

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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

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Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

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Sex, Ideas, Bizarre

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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

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Crush, Smoking, Listening

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Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!

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Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

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Butterfly, Wind, Ridiculous

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