The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden ca… - Milan Kundera

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. the absolute of a burden causes man to be lighter than air.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.