Milan Kundera about time (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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“ Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ”
 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). copy citation

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Milan Kundera about time (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera about time (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.