“You May Think: What’s Happened? Good God, Are They Kidding? But It Is A Rule Of Life, Alas, That

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

- Ivan Turgenev

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier.”

— Douglas Coupland, Player One

Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Prodigal Son." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

'I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov