June 24, 2012
"He had also heard several notewhorthy statements which he appropriated at once : he understood, for example, that the word “bourgeois” was an insult; the bourgeois is the person who wants pictures to look like real life; but we can laugh at such people because (and Jaromil loved this part) because they were dead and did not know it."

— Milan Kundera / Life Is Elsewhere.

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