"God laughs when human beings think" comes from the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Life written by Czech writer Milan Kundera.

"Man laughs when he thinks about God" is an article in Milan Kundera's The Art of Fiction. It is also in The Unbearable Lightness of Life.

"When human beings think, God laughs." This aphorism, which is now widely circulated, expresses Kundera's full understanding of life and the whole human world, because of man's cleverness and his own smallness and insignificance.

because I couldn't get rid of it, I began to doubt and deny it, but finally I fell into a human tragedy. Its sorrow lies not in the result, but in the fact that human beings have never been able to surpass themselves in the whole process.

The more we think, the closer we get to the truth, only to find that we are fooled by God. This is a strange circle that cannot be broken under the constraints of social ethics, and it is also a narrow and humble part of human nature.

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Analysis of works

This book describes that during the Soviet invasion of the Czech Republic in 1968, the atmosphere of democratic reform evolved into a wave of arbitrary oppression.

Thomas, the hero of the novel, is a surgeon. Because of the failure of his marriage, he is both eager for and afraid of women, so he has developed a set of rules to deal with his numerous mistresses.

One day, he fell in love with Teresa, a waitress in a restaurant. His love for her violated his principles and even married her. However, Thomas's idea of separation of soul and flesh has not changed at all, and he still wanders between mistresses, which is a kind of harm to Teresa who loves him completely.

In the life experience of Thomas and Teresa, the author puts the narrative center on Thomas.

At the same time, what I see from him is the author's experience of the importance of life: every life process can't be repeated or rehearsed, and when it is finished, it is an unchangeable freeze frame, so every choice bears a very heavy weight, which is of great significance and may affect people's life's smoothness or ups and downs, happiness or pain.

It was in the living situation stipulated in the novel that he chose the meaning of life he insisted on and what he thought was weighty in his life.

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