It's the most underrated day of the year January 2nd.

"But was it love?  The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!  Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?  His unconcsious was so cowardly that the best partner it could choose for its little comedy was this miserable provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life!"

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is probably the best novel I've ever read.

You're near your destination, the more you're slip sliding away....