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

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

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“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: A Working Autobiography

“Well, she sighed, even if it wasn't reaching me clearly, at least she knew that there was a secret meaning to the things of life. So it was she knew that she occasionally, even if somewhat confusedly, ended up sensing perfection—”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures