“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”

—  Milan Kundera , book Immortality

Source: Immortality

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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

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