"Let us call the gesture of Bettina and Laura the gesture of longing for immortality.
Bettina, who aspires to grand immortality, wishes to say: I refuse to die with this
day and its cares, I wish to transcend myself, to be a part of history, because
history is eternal memory. Laura, though she only aspires to small immortality,
wants the same: to transcend herself and the unhappy moment in which she lives
to do ‘something’ to make everyone who has known her remember her."
- Milan Kundera in Immortality
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