Physical love is unthinkable without violence. - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

"Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death."

"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

"And therein lies the whole of man's plight. 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."