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The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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To die to decide to die that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.
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