From My Favorite Novel by Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting



How small the divide is between everything that is meaningful and meaningless, and how much or how little control we have over anything; in a sense, neurotransmitters, ours, and even worse, that of others', being fired randomly, completely without our knowledge or control, and turning life into utter bliss or absolute hell. If you have any doubt, try any hallucinogenic and you'll discover the divide, and wonder even more about how frightening it is that everyone else operates in exactly such a preposterous manner and psychological state.

-Peter Peyman Farzinpour