This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without … - Milan Kundera

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.

پرسش بااهمیت را فقط یک کودک می‌تواند طرح کند. درواقع همیشه ساده‌ترین پرسش‌ها بااهمیت‌ترین پرسش‌هاست و پاسخی برای آنها وجود ندارد. پرسش‌هایی که نمی‌توان به آنها پاسخ داد، درست همان چیزی است که محدودیت‌های امکانات بشر را نشان می‌دهد و مرزهای هستی ما را تعیین می‌کند.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.