Milan Kundera quote: for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels ...

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 ~

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