The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behaviour or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

(I'm reading Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Gorgeous)

Posted in: the unbearable lightness of being tongue tied on Monday, February 9, 2009 at at 12:02 AM