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...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
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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.
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