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“I am young, I am twenty years of age; but I know nothing of life except despair, death, fear, and the combination of completely mindless superficiality with an abyss of suffering. I see people being driven against one another, and silently, uncomprehendingly, foolishly, obediently and innocently killing one another. I see the best brains in the world inventing weapons and words to make the whole process that much more sophisticated and long-lasting. And watching this with me are all my contemporaries, here and on the other side, all over the world- my whole generation is experiencing this with me. What would our fathers do if one day we rose up and confronted them, and called them to account?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“By god, you gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

“But he himself remained high on his rock, like a drowned sailor on a rock. I leant over the edge of the boat and fell down, he thought, I went under the sea. I have been dead and yet am now alive, but let me rest still, he begged”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time. She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still-bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God