A person who writes books is either all (a single universe for himself and everyone else) or nothing. And since all will never be given to anyone, every one of us who writes books is nothing. Ignored, jealous, deeply wounded, we wish the death of our fellow man.
 Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979). copy citation

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Author Milan Kundera
Source The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Topic death writing
Date 1979
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry Heim
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