The heaviest of burdens is also an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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#burden#life#kundera
2026-04-05
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
#relationship#freedom#tomas
2026-04-05
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
#dogs#innocence#kundera
2026-04-05
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Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
#love#decline#kundera
2026-04-05
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
#ambition#vertigo#kundera
2026-04-05
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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.
#choice#life#kundera
2026-04-05