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Martin Buber
“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.”
― Martin Buber

Edith Wharton
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

Dorothy Parker
“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

Haruki Murakami
“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Vladimir Nabokov
“Dear Jesus, do something.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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