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kleinbl00  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

They missed one of the greats. No less than Milan Kundera spent four pages of a novel describing litost, the czech word that roughly describes "a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery."