“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

—  Milan Kundera , book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood

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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

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