Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a…

Margaret Atwood
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2016). The Handmaid's Tale, p.332, Random House
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

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