What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. - Milan Kundera

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

ما هرگز نمی توانیم با قاطعیت بگوییم که روابط ما با دیگران تا چه حدی از احساسات ما، از عشق ما، از فقدان عشق ما، از لطف و مهربانی ما، و یا از کینه و نفرت ما، سرچشمه می گیرد و تا چه حد از قدرت و ضعف در میان افراد تاثیر می پذیرد.

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