Rejection and privilege, happiness and woe — no one felt more concretely than Yakov how interchangeable opposites are, how short the step from one po… - Milan Kundera

بار هرچه سنگین‌تر باشد، زندگی ما به زمین نزدیک‌تر، واقعی‌تر و حقیقی‌تر است.

Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that they will one day be grownups. No, the reason is that mankind is moving more and more in the direction of infancy, and childhood is the image of the future.

"What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered."