"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
-Milan Kundera
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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.“
-Milan Kundera
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