Milan Kundera via Michelle

This quote is fascinating because its true. Not only have I done this, but I have seen others do it as well. We try to run away or walk slowly in an attempt to leave the past or to hold on to it. We are all familiar with "not wanting this moment to end" and our favorite way to try and trap this "moment" is by not moving, as if our stillness can still time.

Milan Kundera was born in 1929 to a Czech musicologist. Milan learned to play the piano and his interest in music as well as his father's, influenced his future work. Although he began living in France in 1975, he did not become a citizen until 1981. While he is most known for his work "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Milan did have several other influential works including "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Joke." For his various writings he has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize, The Austrian State Prize for European literature, the International Herder Prize and the Czech State Literature Prize.