We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible … - Milan Kundera

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We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.

Milan Kundera

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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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إذ يستطيع جيشان كبيران أن يتصارعا حتى الموت من أجل قضايا مقدسة، لكن بكتيريا صغيرة ونتنة تقضي دائما على الاثنين.

Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

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