#the unbearable lightness of being
Bought an old, used copy of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being – it’s inscribed and full of underlined passages; how could anyone get rid of this?
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Look closely, Who do you see?
Films - The Lady from Shanghai, Black Swan, A Fantastic woman, The Potrait of a lady on Fire Climax, The Metamorphosis of birds, Cleo from 5 to 7, Phoenix, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,The Double Life of Veronique
Mirror mirror on the wall
Films - Hereditary, Titanic, La la land, Wolf of Wall Street, The Unbearable lightness of being, Potrait of a lady on fire, In the mood for Love, Goodfellas, Jojo Rabbit, Drive
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” – Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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“Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can’t bear this lightness, this freedom… I’m not strong enough.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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“Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can’t bear this lightness, this freedom… I’m not strong enough.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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“Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can’t bear this lightness, this freedom… I’m not strong enough.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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Karenin, the dog that belongs to Tereza (Juliette Binoche) in the novel “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera.
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Book #1:The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Milan Kundera
Book #2:The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams
The Show : Flesh and Bone (Episode 2)
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Also from Faber Members is this very cute dog on the cover of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It’ll set you back £50, but how can you resist those eyes?
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“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.
Milan Kundera,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.
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There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
