Roi

“I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. The body lives by itself once it has begun, but thought-I am the one who continues it, unrolls it. I exist. How serpentine is this feeling of existing-I unwind it, slowly… if I could keep myself from thinking! I try, and succeed: my head seems to fill with smoke… and then it starts again: “Smoke… not to think… don't want to think… I think I don't want to think. I mustn't think that I don't want to think because that's still a thought.” Will there never be an end to it? My thought is me, that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking”
― Sartre Jean-Paul, Nausea

“The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately--and against ordinary experience--vanished. The man contains--not the boy--but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

“אחר-כך הרהרתי בכך שכל הדברים קורים לאדם תמיד עכשיו, בדיוק עכשיו. מאות אחרי מאות חולפות, אך הכל מתרחש רק בהווה. אין ספור אנשים באויר, על היבשה ועל פני הים, אך מה שבאמת קורה - קורה רק לי...”
― חורחה לואיס בורחס, The Garden of Forking Paths

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said