The Unbearable Lightness of Being

She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.

“It is entirely possible,” said Tomas, “that a female dog addressed continually by a male name will develop lesbian tendencies.”

Even so, the way he rushed into his decision seems rather odd to me. Could it perhaps conceal something else, something deeper that escaped his reasoning?

It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.

What is unique about the “I” hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person.

Her longing to betray her father remained unsatisfied: Communism was merely another father, a father equally strict and limited, a father who forbade her love (the times were puritanical) and Picasso, too.

and always against America; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; Europe marches on, and to keep up with events, to leave none of them out, its pace grows faster and faster, until finally the Grand March is a procession of rushing, galloping people and the platform is shrinking and shrinking until one day it will be