Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved someth… - Milan Kundera

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

"أي شخص هدفه هو "الشئ الأعلى" عليه أن يتوقع يوماً ما المعاناة من الدوار. ما هو الدوار؟ الخوف من السقوط؟ لا، الدوار شئ مختلف عن الخوف من السقوط. إنه صوت الفراغ من تحتنا والذي يجتذبنا ويغرينا، إنه الرغبة في السقوط، والتي في مقابلها، وبفزع، ندافع عن أنفسنا."