For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). copy citation

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Author Milan Kundera
Source The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Topic nostalgia sunset
Date 1984
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry Heim
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