Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
("Invisible Man")
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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