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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.'

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Translate   13 years ago

Lightness And Heaviness The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But... The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?' (From "The unbearable lightness of being")

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    Translate   13 years ago

    from 'The Sense of an Ending' What did I know of #life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let #life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self-rebukes never really inflicted pain? Well, there was all this to reflect upon, while I endured a special kind of remorse: a hurt inflicted at long last on one who always thought he knew how to avoid being hurt-- and inflicted for precisely that reason.'

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