She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. Angela Carter
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This quote is an example of the way that the mind can create something that is not real or true. We often experience things that are not real or true, but we feel like they are. We often call these things hallucinations because they do not exist in our real world. It’s like our mind makes them up because it can’t accept the idea of something that it cannot see or test.

This quote expresses this phenomenon by saying that what we feel is real is not real. The mind creates this feeling so it can function better and helps us to survive. We should know this feeling is not real because it does not give us any useful information about the outside world, but we still believe it to be true.

Source: The Lady Of The House Of Love

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