The intimacy that Kundera creates between reader and character is so poignant it is almost perverse.
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"Agnes recalled that once as a child, she was dazzled by the thought that God sees her and that he was seeing her all the time. That was perhaps the first time that she experienced the pleasure, the strange delight that people feel when they are being watched, watched against their will, watched in intimate moments, violated by the looks to which they were exposed. Her mother, who was a believer told her 'God sees you', and this is how she wanted to teach her to stop lying, biting her nails and picking her nose, but something else happened: precisely at those times when she was indulging her bad habits, or during physically intimate moments, Agnes imagined God and performed for his benefit."
- Immortality by Milan Kundera
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"Agnes recalled that once as a child, she was dazzled by the thought that God sees her and that he was seeing her all the time. That was perhaps the first time that she experienced the pleasure, the strange delight that people feel when they are being watched, watched against their will, watched in intimate moments, violated by the looks to which they were exposed. Her mother, who was a believer told her 'God sees you', and this is how she wanted to teach her to stop lying, biting her nails and picking her nose, but something else happened: precisely at those times when she was indulging her bad habits, or during physically intimate moments, Agnes imagined God and performed for his benefit."
- Immortality by Milan Kundera
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