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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
Kurt Vonnegut

Cormac McCarthy
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

Joseph Conrad
“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
Rumi

Charles Dickens
“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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