“I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
Already I knew the list of crimes
That I was destined to commit.”
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Anna Akhmatova 99
Russian modernist poet 1889–1966Related quotes
“You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.”
Perfect Day
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“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
Variant: I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
Source: Boy Meets Boy
Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
Context: I Saw the Man.
His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.
Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.
His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.
His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.
And I heard a voice saying:
—"Look, this is the Great Magician!
“A crime is something someone else commits.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XX
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”
