All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur …

Tom Stoppard
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. ✨ 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' (1967) act 1
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. ✨ 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' (1967) act 1

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