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For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as… — Milan Kundera

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For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984
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EmpathyCompassion
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1984
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Milan Kundera
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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.
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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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