A person can never realize what he has to do, because he only has a single life, he cannot compare it with previous lives or repair them in subsequent lives.

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In "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Milan Kundera explores the concept of existential weight and lightness in life. The quote highlights the idea that individuals live only once, making it impossible to fully understand their choices or the significance of their actions. Each life is a singular experience, which prevents individuals from comparing their current lives to past or future ones, creating a sense of urgency and finality in their decisions.

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No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

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Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

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People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.

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Of course we here on earth {planet number one, the planet of inexperience} can only fabricate vague fantasies of what will happen to man on those other planets. Will he be wiser? Is maturity within man's power? Can he attain it through repetition?Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

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Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

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The period of improvised representation exceeded the borders. Franz was finding that this cheeks {who was acknowledged it as witch in any case} had prolonged too much. He grabbed the men's hat between his fingers and extracted it from the head of Sabina, smiling, then hung it over the base. . It was like someone who wished two drinkers drawn by Ould Apple in the image of the Virgin Mary.

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What remains of Cambodia's dying? A big picture of the American star carries a yellow child in her arms. What is left of Thomas? Writing: He wanted the kingdom of God on earth. What is left of Beituvin? Facial, hairdressing man as crazy and pronounced with a depressed "Esmuss Sein" with "not." What is left of Franz? Writing: After a long time, return. And so on, and so on. Before we forget, we turn into "Kitch". "Kiet" is a communication station between the object and forgetfulness.

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She was afraid of being closed inside a coffin and to be indicated in the land of America. Therefore, she wrote a will in which she stipulated that her body be burned after her death, and that her ashes be spread in the air. Teresa and Thomas Mata under the slogan of weight. As for her, she wanted to die under the slogan of lightness. You will become lighter than the air. According to Parminide, her death turns from negative to positive.

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When Simon was thinking about that meeting he was ashamed of his life. He certainly did not like his father. As for him, he admired his father. He remembered every word that he uttered, consuming his positions more and more. There is a sentence in particular that commented on his memory: “The condemnation of those who do not know what to do, a barbarian work.” When his girlfriend's uncle put the book of the Torah in his hands, he was influenced by Jesus' words that say: “Forgive them because they do not know what to do.” He knew that his father was an atheist, but the similarity between the two sentences was for him as if it was a hidden symbol, meaning that his father would desirable the path he chose.

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As a result, complete reconciliation with the object takes its highest example a world from which stool is exiled, and each one behaves as if the stool does not exist. This aesthetic example is called «Kitch». "Kitch" is a German word that appeared in the mid -nineteenth century, and then spread in all languages. But its use in abundance removed its original metaphysical significance, which is: Kitch in the first place an absolute denial of stools. In the literal sense, as in the metaphorical sense, "Al -Kich", it is aside all that is unacceptable in human existence.

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The planet can collapse in the wake of bombing of bombs. The homeland can bend every day a new embezzler, and all the neighborhood residents can be taken to the death battalion. He can bear all this easily than what dares to say, but he is unable to withstand the sadness caused by one dream of Teresa.

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