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“It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”
― Michael Swanwick

“I believe that even God has secrets”
― The Act of Killing

“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
― Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore nothing really to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.”
― Per Petterson, I Curse the River of Time

“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?”
― J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur

“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us....but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”
― J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
― Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― Don DeLillo, The Names

“nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action”
― Goethe

“THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE IS THE HUMAN RACE”
― Gardner Dozois

“This is not a tragedy. I am used up.”
― richard a. hawley, The Headmaster's Papers

“History is a novel whose author is the people”
― Alfred Devigny

“Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.”
― Alfred de Vigny

“A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”
― Alfred de Vigny

“History is a novel whose author is the people.”
― Alfred de Vigny

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales