The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being”
In a world where most opposites have a definitive positive (good/bad, light/dark), which is the positive between weight and lightness?
‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ is a book my Milan Kundera that assesses the burden of weight and lightness and what kind of people or dependencies are required to thrive or be smothered under the conditions of them.
Notes for exploration:
“Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion”
“Surely she, too, had harboured the blissful hope of using her body as a poster for her soul”
“love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory”
“Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two and now all the halves wonder the world over seeking one another”
“Rejection and privilege, happiness and woe”
“He did not ask him to write back. He only wanted him to focus his eyes on his life”