“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
“The search for the sense of humour is as fruitless and as enduring as the hunt for the unicorn; the really wise man knows that the unicorn, being no reality but a life-enhancing myth, must never be hunted, and may only be glimpsed by the well-disposed and the lucky; it cannot be captured, and it is encountered only by indirection.”
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
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