Ljudsko vrijeme se ne okreće u krugu, već juri po pravoj liniji naprijed. To je razlog zašto čovjek ne može biti sretan, jer je sreća čežnja za ponav… - Milan Kundera

الجمال من غير قصد هي المرحلة الأخيرة من تاريخ الجمال

Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.