But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
Milan KunderaWithout realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
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Si cada uno de los instantes de nuestra vida se va a repetir infinitas veces, estamos clavados a la eternidad como Jesucristo a la cruz. La imagen es terrible. En el mundo del eterno retorno descansa sobre cada gesto el peso de una insoportable responsabilidad. Ese es el motivo por el cual Nietzsche llamó a la idea del eterno retorno la carga más pesada. Pero si el eterno retorno es la carga más pesada, entonces nuestras vidas pueden aparecer, sobre ese telón de fondo, en toda su maravillosa levedad.
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La carga más pesada nos destroza, somos derribados por ella, nos aplasta contra la tierra. Pero en la poesía amatoria de todas las épocas la mujer desea cargar con el peso del cuerpo del hombre. La carga más pesada es por lo tanto, a la vez, la imagen de la más intensa plenitud de la vida. Cuanto más pesada sea la carga, más a ras de tierra estará nuestra vida, más real y verdadera será. Por el contrario, la ausencia absoluta de carga hace que el hombre se vuelva más ligero que el aire, vuele hacia lo alto, se distancie de la tierra, de su ser terreno, que sea real sólo a medias y sus movimientos sean tan libres como insignificantes.
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
Milan Kundera...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.
Milan KunderaAren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
Milan KunderaHuman lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life.
Milan KunderaConversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
Milan KunderaThe body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.
Milan KunderaSpontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him.
The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus "ate and drank, but did not defecate."
Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the creator of man.
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