The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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"Written by: Milan Kundera Published: 1984 (French), 1985 (Czech. English) Publishers: Faber & Faber, Harper & Row, Gallimard, and 68 Publishers Number of Pages: 393 "Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” "

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" In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. Twisting and turning beside the slumbering Tereza, he recalled something she had told him a long time before in the course of an insignificant conversation. They had been talking about his friend Z. when she announced, If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him. Even then, her words had left Tomas in a strange state of melancholy, and now he realized it was only a matter "