The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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A quote by Milan Kundera about effects of the past: “The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult…”

A quote by Milan Kundera about effects of the past: “The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult…”

A quote by Milan Kundera about effects of the past: “The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult…”