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“It is a long dark road from there to where I have really come”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“You will be prodded, pushed. Tested. You will be bumped up against the Great Wall of Uncertainty again and again-the question on the tongue of the universe always the same-who are you?”
― Julian Aguon, The Properties of Perpetual Light

“Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable either to see his face or to look into his own eyes. He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to commit the ignominy of seeing his own face. The creator of the mirror poisoned the human soul.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“You can disagree without being disagreeable.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg