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Varolmanın Dayanılmaz Hafifliği

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Finish date: January 15, 2019

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Aug 07, 2015 Sam rated it it was amazing

Shelves: aşklarım

Tutun kollarımdan uçarım şimdi, öyle hafifim.

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Jan 27, 2015 0rkun rated it liked it

Meh. Okumak istemeyeceğim her şeyi sağ olsun Kundera kitabın içine doldurmuş. Birkaç cümle dışında kitaba çok yabancı kaldım.

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Jan 03, 2015 Selen Birce rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2015

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become" page 5

"A person who longs to leave the place where lives is a unhappy person" page 27

"Without realizing it, the individual come poses his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress." page 52

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of imagination, a game that is a value in itself. "The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become" page 5

"A person who longs to leave the place where lives is a unhappy person" page 27

"Without realizing it, the individual come poses his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress." page 52

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); 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 abour things that have not happened-is among mankind's deepest needs. Here in lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten" page 59

"We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down[...]" page 76

"[...] love was not an extension of public life but its antithesis. It meant a longing to put himself at the mercy of his partner. He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall. That is why I can say for Franz, love meant the constant expecting of a blow." page 83

"Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit of failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume the correct attitude to her unchosen fate. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it." page 89

"Beauty in Europe sense has always had a premeditated quality in it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a longe-range plan. That's what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rest on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry" page 101
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May 07, 2013 Aylin Köstekli rated it liked it

Tekrarı mümkün olmayan hayatımız, rastlantılar, kadınlar, erkekler, beklentiler, seçimler ve aşk üzerine uzun uzun düşündürüyor kitap. Küçük ama etkileyici ayrıntılar, yaşamdan kesitler var.

Kitabı bitirdikten sonra aklımda kalanlar şunlar;
Yaşanacak bir tek hayatımız varsa eğer, onu hiç yaşamamış da olabiliriz, farketmez. "Einmal ist keinmal."
Rastlantıların, sadece rastlantıların söyleyecek bir sözü vardır bize. Gereklilikten doğan, olmasını beklediğimiz, günbegün yinelenen her şey dilsizdir. Sa ...more

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