The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change t…

Milan Kundera
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. ✨ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 17 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. ✨ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 17 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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