If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life.
("The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
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A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the cemetery.
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If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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