Mirna

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

“Because Ove, as Parvaneh had soon realized, was the sort of man who, when he was not quite certain where he was going, just carried on walking straight ahead, convinced that the road would eventually fall into line.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Sjećaš se kad smo ono jednom pričali o tome kako se ljudi vide jedino ponegdje u ogledalima i u izlozima, pa i tada brzo namještaju izraze lica, i zato misle da hodaju po svijetu izgledajući kao vlastite fotografije na osobnim iskaznicama? I da ponekad nisu svjesni koliko često zapravo odaju svoje razočaranje, gađenje, Nisu svjesni malih gesti, izdaha i tikova koji govore ono što oni nikada ne bi izgovorili. Pretvaranje i sudjelovanje u tuđem pretvaranju omogućuje da živimo u koliko-toliko uređenom svijetu.”
― Kristian Novak, Črna mati zemla