Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genu… - Milan Kundera

ما هرگز نمی توانیم با قاطعیت بگوییم که روابط ما با دیگران تا چه حدی از احساسات ما، از عشق ما، از فقدان عشق ما، از لطف و مهربانی ما، و یا از کینه و نفرت ما، سرچشمه می گیرد و تا چه حد از قدرت و ضعف در میان افراد تاثیر می پذیرد.

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میلان کوندرا

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he heard it) that she held on to life by a thread. Yes, she did want to live, life gave her great joy, but she also knew that her 'i want to live' was spun from the threads of a spiderweb. It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything — love, convictions, faith, history — no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.