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P. 88: “You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter. It is you I will teach.”

P. 85: She finished her studies, went to university, got a good degree, but ended up working as a librarian. “I should have been crazier.” But, as it undoubtedly happens with most people, she had found this out too late.

P. 59: “What makes a person hate themselves?” “Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect.”

P. 55: “… people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”

P. 47: “That was the really difficult part. Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles.”

P. 22: “Don’t you want to know how you are?” “I already know,” replied Veronika. “And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it’s what’s happening in my soul.” The nurse tried to continue the conversation, but Veronika pretended to be asleep.