Milan kundera quotes the book of laughter and forgetting
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Litost is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it. His parents made him take violin lessons. He was not very gifted and his teacher would interrupt him to criticize his mistakes in an old, unbearable voice.The book of laughter and forgetting - audiobook - Milan Kundera - partie 1
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But underlying the physical issues is something ideological: she loves the sublime nature of the student's poetical soul. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. Through this he learns a lot of things.
It ofrgetting goes to show that there's no such thing as an insignificant private citizen in a totalitarian state-everybody is important enough to destroy. Kundera describes the terrors and humiliations of the intellectual under totalitarianism, the free encyclopedia, with crystalline authority. From Wikipedia. Look at what happens to Tamina and Czechoslovakia when they get the lightness they hope for.
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