Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that sh… - Milan Kundera

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

قال رامون: أجل، هذه هى الحال. يتلاقى الناس فى الحياة، يثرثرون ويتناقشون ويتشاجرون دون أن يدركوا أنهم يخاطبون بعضهم بعضًا من بعيد، كل واحد من مرصد ينتصب فى موقع مختلف من الزمن

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don't chase women, because you do the dishes, then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I'm crazy about you even though you're neither intelligent nor decent, even though you're a liar, an egotist, a bastard.