the unbearable lightness of being
Here are some lines from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being":
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. - page 8
Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. - page 11
In spite of their love, they had made each other’s life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely a proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior, or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak. She was like Dubcek, who made a thirty-second pause in the middle of a sentence; she was like her country, which stuttered, gasped for breath, could not speak. But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. - page 75
