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“The weight of a dream is not in proportion to its size. Some dreams are made of fog, some of lace, some of lead. Some dreams seem to be made out of less the usual debris of the psyche than bolts of lightning sent from outside.”

“In dreams, nothing is lost. Childhood homes, the dead, lost toys all appear with a vividness your waking mind could not achieve. Nothing is lost but you yourself, wanderer in a terrain where even the most familiar places aren’t quite themselves and open onto the impossible.”

“A story can be a gift like Ariadne’s thread, or the labyrinth, or the labyrinth’s ravening Minotaur; we navigate by stories, but sometimes we only escape by abandoning them.”

“Maybe there’s one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized & hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It’s based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there’s not enough to go around, & the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for...”

“There is something fearful and mysterious about every body of water, murky water that promises unseen things in unseen depths, clear water that shows you the bottom far below as if you could fall into it, though the water would buoy you up in that strange space neither air nor ground.”

“We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.”

“Science is how capitalism knows the world.”

“To imagine that you know, to populate the unknown with projections, is very different from knowing that you don’t... Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t - and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.”

“To acknowledge the unknown is part of knowledge, and the unknown is visible as terra incognita but invisible as selection...”

“But the terra incognita spaces on maps say that knowledge also is an island surrounded by oceans of the unknown. They signify that the cartographers knew they did not know, and awareness of ignorance is not just ignorance; it’s awareness of knowledge’s limits.”