
„Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.“
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Birthdate: 27. January 1832
Date of death: 14. January 1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Variant: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Variant: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?"
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— Lewis Carroll, book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Variant: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass