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" I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. "

Milan Kundera

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" Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. "

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" Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. "

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" I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. "

" Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. "

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