Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

"It was no sigh, no moan; it was a real scream. She screamed so hard that Tomas had to turn away from her face, afraid that her voice so close to his ear would rupture his eardrum. The scream was not an expression of sensuality. Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. But her scream aimed at crippling the senses, preventing all seeing and hearing. What was screaming in fact was the naive idealism of her love trying to banish all contradictions, banish the duality of body and soul, banish perhaps even time..."

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