"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”

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