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“Was everything made up? Was this whole world inside my head? If I ever woke up from it, would I be inside a padded room somewhere, drooling all over myself?
Would I even be myself?”
― Made You Up
Would I even be myself?”
― Made You Up
“Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up.”
― Made You Up
― Made You Up
“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“High society here turns me off and I feel a bit of rage against all these rich guys here, since I have seen thousands of people in the most terrible misery without anything to eat and with no place to sleep, that is what has most impressed me here, it is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger... Although I am very interested in all the industrial and mechanical development of the United States, I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They live as if in an enormous chicken coop that is dirty and uncomfortable. The houses look like bread ovens and all the comfort that they talk about is a myth.”
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