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“To go mad, to lose your mind, which is the only thing that’s really yours because it’s really you … That would be an inexpressibly terrible thing. And at the same time it would be nothing, because you yourself would be unable, from within that damaged state, to recognise or reflect on it.”
― The Boy on the Bridge
― The Boy on the Bridge
“The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something that people build inside their heads, using the facts as raw materials. And sometimes the facts get bent or broken in the process.”
― Fellside
― Fellside
“The world is information. An endless torrent. Whatever escapes you becomes something you will never completely understand.”
― The Boy on the Bridge
― The Boy on the Bridge
“I’ve got to do something. I can’t just sit here until the world ends. It will take too long.”
― Fellside
― Fellside
“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”
― The Boy on the Bridge
― The Boy on the Bridge
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