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“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the
motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again. I tell him my idea about the book, and a large box of
parchment sheets arrives on the next train from the Capitol”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks