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" "It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life — and herein lies its secret — takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.
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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Dưới mắt Tereza, sách vở là biểu tượng cho hội tình thương bí mật. Bởi đó là khí giới duy nhất cô có trong tay để chống chọi với cái thế giới thô bỉ, nhơ nhớp chung quanh cô. Nhất là tiểu thuyết. Cô đọc bất cứ quyển gì cô vớ được trong tay, từ Fielding cho đến Thomas Mann. Sách vở không những giúp cô tạm thời thoát khỏi đời sống buồn nản, chán ngắt cô đang vương mắc, nó còn mang ý nghĩa khác: cô rất thích đi bộ xuống phố, trên tay ôm một quyển sách. Với cô quyển sách có ý nghĩa giống như cách đây gần thế kỉ người đàn ông lịch sự, bảnh bao cầm trên tay cây can khi bước ra đường phố. Nhờ quyển sách cô thấy mình khác những người chung quanh.
"The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and foul and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars.
The reason we take that right for granted is that we stand at the top of the hierarchy. But let a third party enter the game - a visitor from another planet, for example, someone to whom God says, "Thou shalt have dominion over creatures of all other other stars" - and all at once taking Genesis for granted becomes problematic. Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly!) to the cow."