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“But perhaps someday, when we are ready to die of exhaustion and ignorance, I shall be able to disown our garish tombs and go and stretch out in the valley, under the same light, and learn for the last time what I know.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky”
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“...a primary feature of the experience of staying in a psychiatric hospital is that you will not be believed about anything. A corollary to this feature: things will be believed about you that are not at all true.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
“The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
“If I believe that I don’t exist, or that I am dead, does that not impact who I am? Who is this alleged “person” who is a “person living with psychosis,” once the psychosis has set in to the point that there is nothing on the table save acceptance?
When the self has been swallowed by illness, isn’t it cruel to insist on a self that is not illness? Is this why so many people insist on believing in a soul?”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
When the self has been swallowed by illness, isn’t it cruel to insist on a self that is not illness? Is this why so many people insist on believing in a soul?”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Jane’s 2025 Year in Books
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