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b_b · 3512 days ago · link · · parent · post: 6th Bi- or Tri-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately
Milan Kundera: I originally read this in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, but I came across it again today, quoted in Postwar by Tony Judt.Say what you will--the Communists were more intelligent. They had a grandiose program, a plan for a brand-new world in which everyone would find his place...From the start there were people who realized they lacked the proper temperament for the idyll and wished to leave the country. But since by definition an idyll is one world for all, the people who wished to emigrate were implicitly denying its validity. Instead of going abroad, they went behind bars.