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“Without others’ eyes to confirm the reality of what’s before us, our eyes no longer know what they’re seeing, and our very identity is lost; because what we believe to be the most intimate part of ourselves, our consciousness, is really others in us; we cannot see ourselves with our own eyes.”

“And a body prone to scrutiny has to get away from it all and take a walk.”

“All because I wanted to show the world I might be someone other than the man they imagined me to be.”

“… since your old friend occupied one reality and the new one another, so profoundly incompatible that an alarm went off alerting you to the fact that, if you spoke to one the other would stand there staring at you dumbfounded; he wouldn’t recognize you anymore…”

“… because a single reality wasn’t provided for us and doesn’t exist, and we have to provide it for ourselves if we want to live… And life doesn’t remain fixed. It can’t stay in one place. If it stops tomorrow, it’s the end of the world.”

“Once we realize that all of our selves are not in a given act, it would therefore be an atrocious injustice to judge us on any one act alone, to hold us accountable, trussed up and hung from the gallows, our whole existence summed up in a moment.”

“Once an act is performed, that’s it; there’s no way to change it… the act nevertheless endures, becomes a prison.”

“… your life being the result of actions, of seed heedlessly thrown by a man, your father; your presence in the world deriving from that seed, making you the involuntary fruit of that man, attached to that branch, grown from those roots.”