People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a dis… - Milan Kundera

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Engraved portrait of Milan Kundera, facing left

People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.

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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).

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Elisa Cabot (CC BY-SA)

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Alternative Names: Kundera

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