Quote #140
"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no
difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward
dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
-- HPL, from "The Silver Key"
"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no
difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward
dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
-- HPL, from "The Silver Key"
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