#mila kundera

[scatorcio]

DOES YOUR MOTHER LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME? HAVE YOU EVER DOUBTED?

the unbearable lightness of being, mila kundera / raise high the roof beam, j.d. salinger / yellowjackets (2021) / joan tierney / i, tonya (2017) / looking for alaska (2019) / sex education (2019) / class of 2013, mitski / dark places, gillian flynn / crazy/beautiful (2001) / timor mortis, louise gluck / killing eve (2018) / sharp objects (2018) / shameless (2011) / la prieta, gloria e. anzaldúa / mother wound healing, bethany webster

[thedailykirk]

Why Don't I Care

Why Don’t I Care

WHY DON’T I CARE?

This has been a symptom for many years, but I am struggling to find my passion. I don’t care. Nothing intrigues me anymore, it seems like nothing is new under the sun. Everything is logical and predictable, and nothing is interesting. Nothing matters. I used to care about excelling, whether with people or with grades, or just whatever I do. Now I struggle to find a reason. It…

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[palabrassinespinadorsal]

El hombre atraviesa el presente con los ojos vendados. Sólo puede intuir y adivinar lo que de verdad está viviendo. Y después, cuando le quitan la venda de los ojos, puede mirar al pasado y comprobar qué es lo que ha vivido y cuál era su sentido. Aquella noche pensé que estaba brindando por mis éxitos, sin tener la menor sospecha de que estaba celebrando la inauguración de mis fracasos.

Mila Kundera, El libro de los amores ridículos.

[iamlamour]

"I think I'd miss you even if we never met." -- Clare Kilner 

[msjnaomi]

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[freshgypsy]

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground.  But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.  Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"

~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

~ Photo: The Approach (by Micah Boy)

[comparisonswithsummerdays]

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Mila Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[lostintheunexpected]

“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?”

Milan Kundera, Identity