Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself. Patricia Highsmith
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William Blake is known for his poetry, his designs, and even his paintings. His writings are said to have influenced many of the most important writers of the Romantic period. He is known for his extremely vivid imagery. However, in this quote, he is painting a picture of what people go through on a day-to-day basis.

We all carry this other side of ourselves inside of us. It's scary to think that there are all these things that are just waiting to get out at any given time. He also talks about how humans are but a tiny part of the world, but we try to live our lives as if we are the center of it all.

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