“…when Tomas made love he kept his eyes open, focused and observant, his body ever so slightly arched above her, never pressing against her skin. She did not want him to study her. She wanted to draw him into the magic stream that may be entered only with closed eyes…She hated that distance. She wanted to merge with him.”
“Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
-two different excerpts from The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera. Recommended. But you should know that already.
And the pictures, of course, are from the 1988 film version, directed by Phillip Kaufman and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, and Juliette Binoche.
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