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Gus Moreno
“People can not bear to think there are channels of human experience that are closed off to them, that they'll never know. People want to believe their experience is universal, that nothing's outside of their scope.”
Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

Solvej Balle
“the knowledge that everything can change in an instant, that something which cannot happen and which we absolutely do not expect, is nonetheless a possibility. That time stands still. That gravity is suspended. That the logic of the world and the laws of nature break down. That we are forced to acknowledge that our expectations about the constancy of the world are on shaky ground. There are no guarantees and behind all that we ordinarily regard as certain lie improbable exceptions, sudden cracks and inconceivable breaches of the usual laws.”
Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I

Mieko Kawakami
“I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn’t resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.”
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

Stefan Zweig
“Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the humans soul as a void.”
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

Saou Ichikawa
“Japan, on the other hand, works on the understanding that disabled people don’t exist within society, so there are no such proactive considerations made. Able-bodied Japanese people have likely never even imagined a hunchbacked monster struggling to read a physical book. Here was I, feeling my spine being crushed a little more with every book that I read, while all those e-book-hating able-bodied people who went on and on about how they loved the smell of physical books, or the feel of the turning pages beneath their fingers, persisted in their state of happy oblivion.”
Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

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