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“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen."

[Hyazinthen]”
― Theodor Storm, Gedichte

“For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West