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“The night was so deathly silent that I felt I could hear the sound of the stars moving across the heavens.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker,' said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, 'and so you can stand less and less.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“The power to construct oneself is destiny”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile