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Old 09-21-2011, 06:07 PM   #374
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Originally Posted by djulian View Post
I've been reading through this thread, and hoping I could guess one. I'm throwing out a wild guess here, but is the quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera?

(I've never read it; it's just the only Eastern European title I know of.)
You've got it! The quote is from a section entitled "Dictionary of Misunderstood Words," and I love how concretely it shows the false equivalence of words that are "easy" to translate.
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