the well written - milan kundera

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication, it is also an aesthetic

activity, a game of imagination, a game that is a value in itself.  Our dreams 

prove that to imagine—to dream about things that have not happened—is 

among mankind’s deepest needs.  Herein lies the danger.  If dreams were 

not beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.  But Tereza kept coming back 

to her dreams, running through them in her mind, turning them into legends.   

Thomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of 

Tereza’s dreams.

- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Joshua Vegas

the well written - milan kundera

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Pamela Jaeger