People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.

— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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