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“I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy

“Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.”
― George Seferis