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loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · October 27, 2009 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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).

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But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

تصور کنید یک دست شما را قطع کرده و به پیکر شخص دیگری پیوند زده باشند و یک روز، کسی در مقابل شما می‌نشیند و جلو روی شما، این دست را تکان می‌دهد و با آن به شما اشاره می‌کند. بدون تردید فکر می‌کنید که این یک مترسک است و هرچند که با آن به‌تمامی آشنا باشید، هرچند که مطمئن باشید که این دست خود شماست ولی از اینکه لمسش کنید، هراس خواهید داشت.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away - Milan Kundera

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