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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Novelist
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University Teacher
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Brünn
Stones
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Longer
Dead
Covered
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Graves
Whether
Soil
Doe
Make
Anyway

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