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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
Author
Novelist
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Brünn
Pain
Lightness
Someone
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Nothing
Compassionate
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Empathy
Even
Heavy
Intensified
Compassion
Weighs
Hundred
Prolonged
Imagination
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