"Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. "Beauty by mistake"- the final phase in the history… - Milan Kundera

Beauty by mistake' — the final phase in the history of beauty.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying.

Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.