It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules. - Milan Kundera

جميعنا, في جزء ما من أنفسنا, نعيش وراء الزمن. ربما أننا لا نعي عمرنا إلا في لحظات استثنائية, وأننا معظم الوقت أشخاص بلا أعمار.

This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment — beyond that boundary.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.