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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In...(more)
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Recent Quotes:
Fri Jun 29 15:25:59 UTC 2007
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics), Page: 298
Contributed by: Grace Huang.
Milan Kundera said

And therein lies the whole of man's plight.   Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line.  That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Fri Jun 29 15:25:01 UTC 2007
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics), Page: 297
Contributed by: Grace Huang.
Milan Kundera said

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

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