Milan Kundera quote: Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and ...

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

~ Milan Kundera ~

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