The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream
- Thomas Ligotti
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Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
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