“Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”

—  Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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