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