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\epigraph{%
	The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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	Howard Philip Lovecraft
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\epigraph{%
	Рукописи не горят\\(Manuscripts don't burn)
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	Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков\\(Mikhail Afanesyevich Bulgakov)
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\epigraph{%
	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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	Robert Louis Stevenson
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\epigraph{%
	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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	Charles John Huffam Dickens
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