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Ivan Goncharov
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”
Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

René Descartes
“I think; therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Reflection poisons desire.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

Jeanette Winterson
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
Jeanette Winterson

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