“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight, p. 4
“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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