Milan Kundera Quotes

During The Twenty Years Of Odesseus' Absence, The People Of Ithaca Retained Many Recollections Of Him But Never Felt Nostalgia For Him. Whereas Odysseus Did Suffer Nostalgia, And Remembered Almost Nothing.
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For Four Long Books Of The Odyssey He Had Retraced In Detail His Adventures Before The Dazzled Phaeacians. But In Ithaca He Was Not A Stranger, He Was One Of Their Own, So It Never Occurred To Anyone To Say, 'Tell Us!

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