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	The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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	H.P. (Howard) Lovecraft
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	\selectlanguage{russian}Рукописи не горят\\
	\selectlanguage{british} (Manuscripts don't burn)
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	\selectlanguage{russian}М.А.\ (Mихаил) Булгаков\\
	\selectlanguage{british} (M.A.\ (Mikhail) Bulgakov)
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	You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
	You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
	and away the stone goes, starting others;
	\ldots
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	R.L. (Robert) Stevenson
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	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.
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	C.J.H. (Charles) Dickens
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	als ik dan van al dat schrijven\\
	toch wel erg ben afgemat\\
	ga ik lekker zitten lezen\\
	o, wat heerlijk lijkt mij dat
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	H.M. (Dick) Bruna
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%	\ldots and writing can make things a bit more bearable.
%	A book, is a suicide postponed.
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%	E.M. (Emil) Cioran
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