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“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;”
― Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

“Nothing can extinguish my anger.

And nothing can restore my faith.

This is not a world in which I wish to live.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis