#Milan Kundera

[metamorphesque]

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Il en va de l'érotisme comme de la danse : l'un des partenaires se charge toujours de conduire l'autre.

- Milan Kundera

[texaschainsawmascara]

Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer / unknown / Hate To Feel - Alice In Chains / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman / Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch / Rupi Kaur / The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera / Amanda Palmer / Blud, "Glutton" - Rachel McKibbens / Medusa With the Head of Perseus, ‘Wound From the Mouth of a Wound’ - Torrin A. Greathouse / Easier Than Lying - Halsey / Playing God - Paramore / Nancy Lee / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong / Enough - Suzanne Buffam / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / Family Tree (Intro) - Ethel Cain / Kellin / In The Blood - John Mayer / Antigonick - Anne Carson / The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch / Untitled, Jasmin R. / When Doves Cry - Prince / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Courtney Love prays to Oregon - Clementine Von Radics / unknown / Cradle - Paris Paloma

[quotespile]

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than 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.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[vivacissimx]

🗡 Viserra, Alysanne, and Baelon Targaryen 🗡

fire & blood / franny choi, soft science / elisabeth le brun, julie le brun looking in a mirror (1787) / fire & blood / kim addonizio, queen of the game / marie laurencin, jeune filles et fleurs (1950) (with details) / milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being (1984) / commissioned art of viserra and baelon by @chillyravenart / fire & blood / le mains négatives (1979) dir. marguerite duras / leo tolstoy, war and peace / mel ferrer as prince andrey bolkonsky in war and peace (1956) / ava gardner photographed posing before a mirror / richard siken, litany in which certain things are crossed out / laura makabrescu interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / the swanee review: thesmophoria by melissa fabos, interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / david thauberger, prairie thunder (2020) / fire & blood / virginia woolf, a writer's diary / peter paul rubens, deborah kip and her children (1630) / c.w. gluck's opera orfeo et eurydice / niki de saint phalle, altar of women (1964) / jon ware's 'i am in eskew' podcast

[shihlun]

Juliette Binoche holding a Praktica LTL camera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

[macrolit]

I must warn you of my bad disposition. I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. If this is possible for you, I'd like to speak of literature. - Milan Kundera, in a 1985 letter to the New York Times in response to them asking for an interview

[huariqueje]

"for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightnees of Being.

[ahosia3]

"Zmęczenie. Nagle poczułem ochotę, by machnąć na wszystko ręką. Odejść i przestać się tym wszystkim przejmować. Nie chcę już żyć w tym świecie realnych spraw, których nie rozumiem i które mnie zwodzą".

~Milan Kundera :"Żart"

[nobeerreviews]

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

-- Milan Kundera

(Cluj, Romania)

[metamorphesque]

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[afterreight]

Juliette Binoche and Daniel Day-Lewis in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufmann,1988)

[f-arelos]

carrie (1976) / the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera (via @soracities)

[quotespile]

It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life — and herein lies its secret — takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

[gymncpdie]

03.06.24. Things that happened recently: posted my review for The Unbearable Lightness of Being; read 2 outstanding books consecutively; had late nights trying to catch up with work; caught up with work, then a new project came up with an even tighter deadline; brought my sickly dog to the vet; and launched a podcast. Wondering whether the fear of failure and uncertainty will ever go away, and trying to keep going despite of it.

On a lighter note (Milan Kundera has really done something to my brain) if you like podcasts maybe you can check out the one I'm doing for work as the first episode just got released.

[need-grows-teeth]

Are you becoming what you've always hated?