Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
excerpt from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (via emmakempsell)
There was a period of a couple of years where all I did was read this book
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