THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING BY MILAN KUNDERA

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer. His most well known work is his novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perpetual contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions