Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding
("House of Leaves")
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I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.Mark Z. Danielewski
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.
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Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
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It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
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I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.
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