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   5 \begin{document}
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   9 \epigraph{%
  10         The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
  11 }{%
  12         H.P. (Howard) Lovecraft
  13 }
  14 \epigraph{%
  15         \selectlanguage{russian}Рукописи не горят\\
  16         \selectlanguage{british} (Manuscripts don't burn)
  17 }{%
  18         \selectlanguage{russian}М.А.\ (Mихаил) Булгаков\\
  19         \selectlanguage{british} (M.A.\ (Mikhail) Bulgakov)
  20 }
  21 \epigraph{%
  22         You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
  23         You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
  24         and away the stone goes, starting others;
  25         \ldots
  26 }{%
  27         R.L. (Robert) Stevenson
  28 }
  29 \epigraph{%
  30         I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them\ldots{} It's work enough to read them sometimes\ldots{} As to the writing, it has its own charms.
  31 }{%
  32         C.J.H. (Charles) Dickens
  33 }
  34 \epigraph{%
  35         als ik dan van al dat schrijven\\
  36         toch wel erg ben afgemat\\
  37         ga ik lekker zitten lezen\\
  38         o, wat heerlijk lijkt mij dat
  39 }{%
  40         H.M. (Dick) Bruna
  41 }
  42 %\epigraph{%
  43 %       \ldots and writing can make things a bit more bearable.
  44 %       A book, is a suicide postponed.
  45 %}{%
  46 %       E.M. (Emil) Cioran
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  50 \end{document}