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“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's go.

They do not move.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

“As Simone de Beauvoir had told us, women are not supposed to eclipse men in a world in which success and power are marked out for them. It is not easy to take up the historic privilege of dominance over women... if he is economically dependent on her talents. At the same time, she receives the fatal message that she must conceal her talents and abilities in order to be loved by him.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living