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Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

— Milan Kundera Identity (1998)

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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Fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

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Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.

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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

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