The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But is
heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
The heaviest of burdens
crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground.
But in the love
poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The
heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously the image of life’s most
intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the
earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence
of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave
of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as
free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or
lightness?
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