When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it. - Milan Kundera

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?

Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.