Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The … - Milan Kundera

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Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it is plunged into immobile slowness, and then only gradually does it accelerate more and more.

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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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أترين يا كلارا ؟ أنتى تظنين أن الكذبة تعادل الأخـرى، لكنك مخطأة. أستطيع أن أختلق أى شئ، وأن أضحك على ذقون الناس وأخدعهم، وأن أقوم بكل أنواع التدليس من دون أن أشعر بأنى كاذب. فهذه الأنواع من الكذب، إن شئتى أن تسمى هذا كذبًا، هى أنا، أنا على حقيقتى. فبهذه الأنواع من الكذب لا أخفى شيئًا، بل أعبر عن الحقيقة. لكن هناك أشياء لا أستطيع الكذب فيها. هناك أشياء خبرتها جيدًا، أعرف معناها وأحبها، وهى أشياء لا أتساهل فيها. الكذب فيها حطّ من قدرى، وهو أمر لا أطيقه، فلا تطالبينى بيه، لأننى لن أفعله.

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