The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. - Milan Kundera

Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos dé algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

"This symmetrical composition — the same motif at the beginning and at the end — may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion."