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"I have understood nothing about the world in which I live. I have criss-crossed it in every direction but I haven't discovered its boundaries. [...] is this what you have to offer us? Leave us alone, we're better off dead than desperate."

"They'd wanted something all their lives, but now they had it, they didn't recognise it. Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness. That is something that I, who have only experienced absurdity, can only suppose."