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 lig… - Milan Kundera

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in
his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself
with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and
inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and
marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been
accounted for, was the soul.

Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.