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David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Louis Paul Boon
“Ik lach er mee, maar ik vraag mij af waarom de mensen niet gebleven zijn lijk de andere dieren, waarom wij en wij alleen moesten gekruisigd worden met die hel van het verstand dat alles wil ontleden en begrijpen, en dat ons niets bijbrengt dan vloeken en tranen. Hebt ge dat ooit van een beest geweten? Ze eten en slapen, ze drinken, paren en gaan dood, en ze zijn gelukkig. Wij niet, wij hebben het verstand dat ons doet vragen: waarom? En datzelfde verstand dat ons zegt: er is geen waarom, en als er toch een waarom moest zijn dan is er geen antwoord op.”
Louis Paul Boon, De voorstad groeit

John  Williams
“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration. Like the church in the Middle Ages, which didn't give a damn about the laity or even about God, we have our pretenses in order to survive. And we shall survive—because we have to.”
John Williams, Stoner

John  Williams
“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
John Williams, Stoner

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