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Jostein Gaarder
“Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

Michel Foucault
“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”
FOUCAULT MICHEL, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Jostein Gaarder
“I don't belong anywhere.
I am neither a heart, a diamond, a club, nor a spade. I am neither a King, a Jack, an Eight, nor an Ace.
As I am here - I am merely the Joker, and who that is I have had to find out for myself.

Every time I toss my head, the jingling bells remind me that I have no family.
I have no number - and no trade either.
I have gone around observing your activities from the outside.
Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind.

Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake.
It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw:
he sees too deeply and too much.


Truth is a lonely thing.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

Jostein Gaarder
“Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
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Flannery O'Connor
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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