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Emil M. Cioran
“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”
Emil Cioran

Paul Valéry
“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
Paul Valery, The Art of Poetry

Gustave Flaubert
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
Gustave Flaubert

Kōbō Abe
“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...”
Kobo Abe, The Box Man

Kōbō Abe
“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
Kobo Abe

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