فخ الكراهية هو أنه يجعلنا ننجدل على نحوٍ لصيق جداً مع خصمنا. هذا هو فُحْشُ الحرب: حميمية الدم المسفوك في كلا الجانبين، والقُرب الشهواني لجنديَّين يخترق كلٌّ من… - Milan Kundera

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more