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P. 189: “In a while he would make the necessary notes, describing the only known cure for Vitriol: an awareness of life. And describing the medication he had used in his first major test on patients: an awareness of death.”

P. 182: “The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.’’

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.”