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“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. At other times one is conscious of carrying a weight.” George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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