The Unbearable Lightness of Being《Quotes i like from the book :)》

P4 "In the sunset of dissolution everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia even the guillotine."

P8 “…the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing an outline with no picture.”

P15 “Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

P49 “If a love is to be unforgettable fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi’s shoulders.”

P52 “…Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music.

P83 “He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well.”

“…love meant the constant expectation of a blow.”

P110 “…From that time on she had known that beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it we must demolish the scenery.”

P111 “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

P121 “But a divorce won’t make any difference to you! You won’t lose a thing! I’ll give you all the property!”

“I don’t care about property” she said.

“Then what do you care about?”

“Love” she said with a smile.

“Love?” Franz asked in amazement.

“Love is a battle” said Marie-Claude still smiling. “And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

“Love is a battle?” said Franz. “Well I don’t feel at all like fighting.” And he left.

P122 “The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”

P199 “…between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.”

P238 “…the famous myth from Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two and now all the halves wander the world over seeking on another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

P289 “True human goodness in all its purity and freedom can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

P297 “Perhaps all the questions we ask of love to measure test probe and save it have the additional effect of cutting it short. 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.”

P298 “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.”

P304 “Horror is a shock a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness on the other hand assumes we are in the know.”

P309 “her own love she considered above reproach while his seemed mere condescension.”

P313 “The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness."