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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”
― Abe Kōbō, The Woman in the Dunes