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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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
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
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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
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
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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
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
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
From Laughable Loves
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
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
From Laughable Loves