Epigraphs.

I am reading through a little book called Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe and these are the epigraphs (which I think are pretty good):

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside of us.

— Franz Kafka

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

— Oscar Wilde

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