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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Milan Kundera
Born: April 1, 1929
Died: July 11, 2023 (aged 94)
Bio: Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Known for:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
- The Joke (1967)
- Life Is Elsewhere (1969)
- The Festival of Insignificance (2013)
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