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“I was only twenty-four, but I was tired.”
― Nowhere to Be Found
― Nowhere to Be Found
“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.”
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“Ayami was her future self or her past self. And she was both, existing at the same time. In that other world, she was both the chicken and the old woman. That was the secret of night and day existing simultaneously. Ayami discovered this through a single movement, bending down to pick up the pebble. And, remembering this simultaneous existence more vividly than she remembered herself, became unable to remember anything else.”
― Untold Night and Day
― Untold Night and Day
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is being followed, and that many of the most spectacular and convincing of these symptoms in some instances psychiatrically signify merely a temporary emotional upset in a stressful situation, however terrifying to the person at the time. Similarly, the anxiety consequent upon this perception of oneself, and the strategies devised to reduce this anxiety, are not a product of abnormal psychology, but would be exhibited by any person socialized into our culture who came to conceive of himself as someone losing his mind.”
― Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
― Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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