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Samuel Beckett
“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Boris Pasternak
“She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption.”
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

David Foster Wallace
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Vladimir Nabokov
“...photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Arthur Schopenhauer
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”
Arthur Schopenhauer

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