A man is responsible for his ignorance. - Milan Kundera

We can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.

She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.