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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“There is no perfection only life.”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“It wasn’t a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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