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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.
Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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- Milan Kundera
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- Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1929 to 2023; Wikidata Q93166, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93166 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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