Homo Sentimentalis cannot be defined as man with feelings (for we all have feelings), but a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value we all want to feel. And because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings. It is part of the definition of feeling that it is born in us without our will, often against our will. As soon as we want to feel, feeling is no longer feeling but an imagination of feeling, a show of feeling. This is commonly called hysteria. That is why homo sentimentalis is in reality identical to homo hystericus. ~Milan Kundera amazon/Immortality-Perennial-Classics-Milan-Kundera/dp/0060932384
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