Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

Philip K. Dick
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I was not alive but I knew, I saw, I heard. It was very beautiful. But still it wasn't alive. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

Source: A Scanner Darkly

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