The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.

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Middle Easterners: Different cultures, petite, my friends, scarves, The Kite Runner, big eyes, New Wave, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Alicia Keys and bagels.

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" The Unbearable Lightness of Being " (Criterion ): Erotic games and fateful politics in Philip Kaufman's ineffably lyrical adaptation of the Milan Kundera novel.

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One of my favorite books is The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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Indeed, in a decade when over-the-top chandeliers have fallen out of favor, a restrained design that has both the weight of over 700 years of tradition and a certain lightness of being is nothing short of a bright idea.

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Hers is the most-pictured face in history, and the back cover's 2007 Chris Levine "Lightness of Being" picture of a silver-haired monarch wearing the same crown, but scrunching her eyes shut, says everything there is to say about her job.

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I'm reminded of a passage written by Milan Kundera, author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ' in which he talks about starting with what you can see and then going deeper and deeper to the microbial level in order to find the life inside what is apparent on the surface.

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