Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Bruno Schulz
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In the novel "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats, the narrator feels that life is a lie. He says that there is no real love and no real pain. In his mind, reality is a series of imitation objects. That’s what you find when you break a piece of paper.

Source: The Street Of Crocodiles

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