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.
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Jealousy
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Peace
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Bores and Boredom
Gift it
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