Milan Kundera Quote
Nothing brings people together more quickly (though often spuriously and deceitfully)than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all mannerof fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, theerudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one hasto lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and besimple
Milan Kundera
Nothing brings people together more quickly (though often spuriously and deceitfully)than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all mannerof fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, theerudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one hasto lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and besimple