"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
-Milan Kundera
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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.“
-Milan Kundera
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