4 The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
6 Howard Philip Lovecraft
9 Рукописи не горят\\(Manuscripts don't burn)
11 Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков\\(Mikhail Afanesyevich Bulgakov)
14 You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
15 You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
16 and away the stone goes, starting others;
19 Robert Louis Stevenson
22 I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them
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23 It's work enough to read them sometimes
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24 As to the writing, it has its own charms.
26 Charles John Huffam Dickens