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“It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.”
― Monique Wittig

“Whatever's burning in me is mine”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

“Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts and by no means just with the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters, where one letter corroborates another and can refer to it as witness.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena