Milan Kundera about pain (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
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“ For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. ”
 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). copy citation

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Milan Kundera about pain (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan Kundera about pain (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, 1984) - For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.