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Milan Kundera
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
Milan Kundera

Allen Ginsberg
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg

Milan Kundera
“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally.”
Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict

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