Sunday, April 13, 2008

Kundera ususally says most things best.

"Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior, they become frightening. The noblest of national sentiments stand ready to justify the greatest of horrors, and man, his breast swelling with lyric fervor, commits atrocities in the sacred name of love."
-Milan Kundera, The Introduction to a Variation, NYTBook Review, 6.I.1985