Milan Kundera Quotes
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Citations
Kundera, Milan. Slowness. Translated by Linda Asher, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 69.
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Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979. He received his Czech citizenship back in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".