Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into he… - Milan Kundera

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Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

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About Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

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أما العيش في الحقيقة وعدم الكذب على أنفسنا وعلى الآخرين، فأمر غير ممكن، إلا إذا عشنا بعيداً عن الناس. فما أن يكون هناك شاهد على أعمالنا حتى نتأقلم طوعاً أو كرهاً مع العيون التي تراقبنا، فلا يعود أي شيء مما نقوم به حقيقياً. أن نحظى بجمهور، وأن نفكر في جمهور، فهذا يعني أن نعيش في الكذب.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

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