“No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.”

— 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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