“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

— Milan Kundera , book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

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