The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufa… - Milan Kundera

This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

من الصعب العيش مع أشخاص مستعدين لإرسالك إلى المنفى او الموت ، من الصعب أن تصنع منهم أصدقاء حميمين ، كما من الصعب أن تحبهم !.

Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say “totalitarian,” what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree “Be fruitful and multiply.”