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Marcel Proust
“the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation”
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Osamu Dazai
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

Kōbō Abe
“Animal smell is beyond philosophy.”
Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Plato
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
Plato, Apology

Emil M. Cioran
“We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.”
Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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