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  10 \epigraph{%
  11         The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
  12 }{%
  13         H.P. (Howard) Lovecraft
  14 }
  15 \epigraph{%
  16         \foreignlanguage{russian}{Рукописи не горят.}\\
  17         (Manuscripts don't burn.)
  18 }{%
  19         \foreignlanguage{russian}{М.А.\ (Михаил) Булгаков}\\
  20         (M.A.\ (Mikhail) Bulgakov)
  21 }
  22 \epigraph{%
  23         You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
  24         You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
  25         and away the stone goes, starting others;
  26         \ldots
  27 }{%
  28         R.L. (Robert) Stevenson
  29 }
  30 \epigraph{%
  31         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.
  32 }{%
  33         C.J.H. (Charles) Dickens
  34 }
  35 \epigraph{%
  36         als ik dan van al dat schrijven\\
  37         toch wel erg ben afgemat\\
  38         ga ik lekker zitten lezen\\
  39         o, wat heerlijk lijkt mij dat
  40 }{%
  41         H.M. (Dick) Bruna
  42 }
  43 %\epigraph{%
  44 %       \ldots and writing can make things a bit more bearable.
  45 %       A book, is a suicide postponed.
  46 %}{%
  47 %       E.M. (Emil) Cioran
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