No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed …

Milan Kundera
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ✨ Milan Kundera (1983). The Joke, Viking Press
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ✨ Milan Kundera (1983). The Joke, Viking Press

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