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Quotation by Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera (38)Additional Sources
Agnes, in Immortality (1991)"Imagagology" Immortality (1991)Immortality (1991)Kostka, in The Joke (1967, trans. 1982)Life Is Elsewhere (1986)Related Subjects
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czech author, critic. The Joke, pt. 3, ch. 3 (1967, trans. 1982).
The line, written by Ludvik on a postcard, was used by the Party as incriminating evidence against him, though it was only meant as "a joke."
The line, written by Ludvik on a postcard, was used by the Party as incriminating evidence against him, though it was only meant as "a joke."
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