“Lack of verifiability was a paranoiac’s playground paradise.”

— Malcolm Azania , book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 7 “Who Are You, Really? Secret Origins and Secret Shames” (p. 192)

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