It is the desire to fall, against which, terrified we defend ourselves.”. It is a voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. “ Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”. “ For there is nothing heavier than compassion. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera “For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.”
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