Milan Kundera Quotes
The Ethic Of Ecstasy Is The Opposite Of The Trial's Ethic; Under Its Protection Everybody Does Whatever He Wants: Now Anyone Can Suck His Thumb As He Likes, From Infancy To Graduation, And It Is A Freedom No One Will Be Willing To Give Up; Look Around You On The Metro; Seated Or Standing, Every Single Person Has A Finger In Some Orifice Of His Face-in The Ear, In The Mouth, In The Nose; No One Feels He's Being Observed, And Everyone Dreams Of Writing A Book To Tell About His Unique And Inimitable Self, Which Is Picking Its Nose; No One Listens To Anyone Else, Everyone Writes, And Each Of Them Writes The Way Rock Is Danced To: Alone, For Himself, Focused On Himself Yet Making The Same Motions As All The Others. In This Situation Of Uniform Egocentricity, The Sense Of Guilt Does Not Play The Role It Once Did; The Tribunals Still Operate, But They Are Fascinated Exclusively By The Past; They See Only The Core Of The Century; They See Only The Generations That Are Old Or Dead.
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