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1 " Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. "
― Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2 " My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, " Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, " If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, " I don't wish to have a coward as a husband. "
3 " For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth. "
4 " Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown. "
― Milan Kundera
