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Milan Kundera Quotes

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

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Date of Birth:
April 1, 1929
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Czechoslovakian
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