But as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall–falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves. Philip K. Dick
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A person is not the only one who can fall and be humiliated. The passage of time and fate can be just as cruel. And, as anyone who has looked back on an important or fateful event will tell you, the only reason you remember it is because someone else has written about it.

Source: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

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