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Daily Archives: 16 April 2013

Apologies

Posted on 16 April 2013 | Leave a comment

So, if anyone reading this blog is a friend, dear or otherwise, and is offended at the suggestion that they might be a monster because they willingly give up their privacy, I apologize.  You may be a cute monster, a dear monster, even a hot monster, but still a monster by Milan Kundera’s estimation.

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“A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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