Painterly curling red ribbons floating above an open wooden box against deep red.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

Milan Kundera

Love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the creator. Love is freedom. Love lies beyond. Es muss sein!

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Love is presented as a private freedom that reaches beyond the creator's control. The repeated declarations make that independence sound absolute. The closing German phrase, meaning 'It must be', introduces a striking tension between freely belonging to one another and the language of necessity.

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