There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time … - Milan Kundera

Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

I beg you friend, be happy. I have the vague sense that on your capacity to be happy hangs our only hope.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.

Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it’s either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless.