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“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. The world will someday get me on some ludicrous pretext; I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces