To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. - Milan Kundera

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To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

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About Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Elisa Cabot (CC BY-SA)

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Alternative Names: Kundera

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در یک جامعه مرفه، افراد احتیاج به کارکردن با دست‌های خود ندارند و به فعالیت فکری می‌پردازند. دانشگاه‌ها بیش‌ازپیش به وجود می‌آید و تعداد دانشجویان بیش‌ازپیش زیاد می‌شود. آنها برای فارغ‌التحصیل شدن باید موضوع رساله خود را انتخاب کنند. تعداد موضوعات بی‌شمار است، زیرا می‌توان درباره همه‌چیز و هیچ‌چیز تفسیر و بررسی کرد. بدین ترتیب دسته‌های کاغذ سیاه شده در آرشیوها به روی هم تلنبار می‌شود، جایی که از گورستان هم حزن‌انگیزتر است، زیرا حتی در عید اولیای دین مسیح هم کسی به آنجا نمی‌رود. فرهنگ در جمع کثیر فراورده‌ها، در توده‌ای از علامت‌ها و در سرسام کمیت ناپدید می‌شود. باور کن، تنها یک کتاب ممنوع در کشورت، بیش‌تر از میلیاردها کلمه که از دانشگاه‌های ما بیرون می‌ریزند، معنا و مفهوم دارد.

When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.

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But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously the 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. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into 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?

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