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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
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“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
― VALIS
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
― VALIS
“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
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