Daily Dose

From The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim

HAD NOT

"He had not the slightest ambition to be quoted by the historians of centuries to come. He was simply afraid of being quoted by the police."

From Chapter 14

Daily Day

From How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, by Umberto Eco

POSTERITY

"How can such misfortunes be avoided? With notes and notebooks, I would suggest leaving them in an unlikely place, while abandoning in a desk drawer a kind of buried-treasure map indicating the existence of these documents but with undecipherable directions for finding them. This wnsures both that the manuscripts will remain hidden and that many dissertations will be written on the sphinx-like impenetrability of those maps."

From How to Watch Out for Widows