Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: stro…

Milan Kundera
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Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. ✨ Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being). Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
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