... century German philosopher, Freidrich Nietzsche, is "Live dangerously." Whether it is Tomas" illicit sexual encounters, Tereza's vivid photography of the Soviet occupation of Prague, or Sabina's avant garde art forms, the characters in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being all follow this and several of Nietzsche's other dictums in practically every action that they take in his novel. That there is danger in any choice that man makes ... each and every moment may be able to exist forever for Sabina, for Tereza and Tomas, the moment to eternally revisit is one of being ...

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