Nothing brings people together more quickly {though often spuriously and deceitfully}
than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all manner
of fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, the
erudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one has
to lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and be
simple
than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all manner
of fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, the
erudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one has
to lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and be
simple
( Milan Kundera )
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