“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

—  Milan Kundera, book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

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