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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel

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

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: strength, Weak, Leaving, Letting Go

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Compassion, Pain, Feelings

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

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: love quotes, Love Makes Us Whole, Love and Happiness

“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, affection, Measure of love, insincerity

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

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Read In Your 20s

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Weakness, strength, Relationships, Desire

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend our…”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Fear, falling, higher, Desire, self

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, Past, History, Destruction, Interest

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, Past, History, Destruction, Interest

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Alone, Isolation, beauty, Beautiful