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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love
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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, without warning.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time,” Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 masterwork on the human search for meaning, “and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” And yet we only live once, with no rehearsal or

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