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Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
— Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tags: sleep, polygamy, monogamy, love

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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
— Milan Kundera
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
— Milan Kundera
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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.
— Milan Kundera
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
— Milan Kundera
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
— Milan Kundera
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