...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surren… - Milan Kundera

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...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

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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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¿Pero un acontecimiento no es tanto más significativo y privilegiado cuantas más casualidades sean necesarias para producirlo?

Sólo la casualidad puede aparecer ante nosotros como un mensaje. Lo que ocurre necesariamente, lo esperado, lo que se repite todos los días, es mudo. Sólo la casualidad nos habla. Tratamos de leer en ella como leen las gitanas las figuras formadas por el poso del café en el fondo de la taza.

Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female in the world.

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