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NOVELISTS > novelist, playwright, poet > Milan Kundera
The basis of...
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
Source: Immortality, pt. 5, ch. 12 (1991).
-- Milan Kundera, (Apr 1 1929-____), Czech novelist, playwright, poet; He wrote various works combining erotic comedy with political criticism.