How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love – The Marginalian
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#8220;We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
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Poetic Memory, Beauty and Milan Kundera
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What to Read When Remembering Milan Kundera - The Rumpus
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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love – The Marginalian
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Milan Kundera – The Marginalian
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Milan Kundera, who wrote 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies at 94 : NPR
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Milan Kundera – The Marginalian
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Under-linings from Milan Kundera's Immortality, by Neha Putta
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The Marginalian – Page 8 – Marginalia on our search for meaning.
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Milan Kundera quote: Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot
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Milan Kundera (1929-2023): Explorer of life, death, and the unbearable lightness in between - Frontline
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, by Andrea