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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discov

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. – Milan Kundera

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Mankinds true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. – Milan Kundera

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Attitude
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Milan Kundera
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Imagination
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Milan Kundera
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian

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The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. – Marcel Proust

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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. – Theodor Adorno

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