The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.'
Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.
Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man.
Is that any way to talk to me?'
It's the way I talk to whores.
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.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: life
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: guilt mothers sacrifice daughters
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: women
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: love romance relationships violence
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: love
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: love
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
Milan KunderaBut isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
Milan KunderaStichwörter: writing
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: truth lies public
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