The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on non-existence of return. We live everything as it comes without warning. What happens but once might as well not happen at all. The only relationship that can make both partners happy is in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation but in the desire for shared sleep. Those years were more attractive in retrospect. He was enjoying the sweet lightness of being. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination. Only necessity is heavy and only what is heavy has value. Life cannot be an experiment thus there's no room for hypothesis. Co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet. Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times ...