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• There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
• I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life…
• Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…
• Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…
• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its…
• Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
• Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
• Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can…
• We chart delusions through collective agreement.
• The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and…
• The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
• Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

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