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“It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.”
― Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount

“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
― Lautreamont

“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable