Nickfairclough

“I was telling my wife a story about a rich man who was curious, too. He shot himself just to find out what comes after death. Ha, ha, ha! That's the height of curiosity, isn't it? Shooting yourself to find out what comes after death!”
― Knut Hamsun, Look Back on Happiness

“I was already thinking there was no way out of the vicious circle of madness—after all, no one can think with anything but his brain, no one can be outside himself to check whether the processes taking place in his body are normal.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Who am I now among men? Or am I lost already? Am I nothing already?" And I cry out and call my name to hear if it still lives.”
― Knut Hamsun, Look Back on Happiness

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov