"To be loved like that makes all the difference. It does not lessen the terror of the fall, but it gives a new perspective on what that terror means. I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, the one thing powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity." Paul Auster (Moon Palace)
Showing posts with label "Milan Kundera". Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Fait-divers by Milan Kundera

The absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air and his earthly being, and become only half real. (Milan Kundera)

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Fait-divers by Milan Kundera on kitsch

"In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions." - Milan Kundera

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (the devil's laughter)

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (laughable laughter)

Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" (a septic tank)

Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (the parade)

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (it takes so little, so infinitely little)

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (the laughter)

Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (the kitsch of the Grand March)

Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (in equilibrium)