notes on unbearable lightness of being.
What a brilliant book :)
"tomas didnt realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
"the whole universe moves with love. it kneels at the feet of love."
"the brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.
he had no desire to uncover anything in tereza she had came to him uncovered. he made love to her before he could grab for the imaginary scapel he used to open the prostrate body of the world. Before he could start wondering what she would be like when they made love, he loved her. love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
"tomas didnt realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
"the whole universe moves with love. it kneels at the feet of love."
"the brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.
he had no desire to uncover anything in tereza she had came to him uncovered. he made love to her before he could grab for the imaginary scapel he used to open the prostrate body of the world. Before he could start wondering what she would be like when they made love, he loved her. love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."