Monday, August 16, 2010

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

He kept recalling hey lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. She was neither mistress nor wife. She was a child whom he had taken from a bulrush basket that had been daubed with a pitch and sent to the riverbank of his bed. She fell asleep. He knelt down next to her. (...) He had a sudden clear feeling that he would not survive her death. He would lie down beside her and want to die with her. He pressed his face into the pillow beside her head and kept it there for a long time.

Milan Kundera