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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life
In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
From Slowness
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Topic: Philosophical
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Philosophical
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
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 ourselves.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Success
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
From The Joke
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Topic: Death
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Topic: Life
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Death, Relationships
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'

'Do I look like a liar?'

'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Happiness, Life
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life
In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
From Slowness
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Topic: Philosophical
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Philosophical
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
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 ourselves.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Success
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
From The Joke
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Topic: Death
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Topic: Life
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Death, Relationships
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'

'Do I look like a liar?'

'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Happiness, Life
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life
In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
From Slowness
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Topic: Philosophical
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Philosophical
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
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 ourselves.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Success
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
From The Joke
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Topic: Death
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Topic: Life
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Death, Relationships
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'

'Do I look like a liar?'

'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves
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Topic: Relationships
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Happiness, Life
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Topic: Death