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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“God is the pain of the fear of death”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

William Shakespeare
“But no perfection is so absolute
That some inpurity doth not pollute.”
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

Janet Fitch
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency room nurses with their gentle hands. Night clerks in hotels, cabdrivers on graveyard, waitresses in all-night coffee shops. They knew the world, how precious it was when a person remembered your name, the comfort of a rhetorical question, “How’s it going, how’s the kids?” They knew how long the night was. They knew the sound life made as it left. It rattled, like a slamming screen door in the wind. Night workers lived without illusions, they wiped dreams off counters, they loaded freight. They headed back to the airport for one last fare.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

Marjane Satrapi
“You are putting yourself in serious danger...'

I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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