It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made. - Milan Kundera

Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

غایت‌ها مرز را نمودار می‌کنند و در آن‌سوی مرز، زندگی به انتها می‌رسد. میل فراوان به هنر نیز مانند سیاست، نوعی اشتیاق پنهانی به مرگ است.

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.