Although I think, if I were to pursue that thought, I would find that Kundera, at least in that quote, tends toward the melancholy romanticism that I associate with the character of Hamlet. There is much art to be made from the substance of that prince, and his ruminative nature, but the answer to the riddle of him, if we can speak of such an ‘answer,’ is in the final moments of his tragedy’s final act, when decision, as opposed to hesitation, becomes his most salient trait.