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For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
Author
Novelist
Playwright
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University Teacher
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Brünn
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Incomprehension
Universe
Disappearing
Words
Unheard
Everyone
Unseen
Thought
Indifferent
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Disappear
Still
Wants
Time
Turn
Pained

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