#solipsism

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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#equality

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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#poetry #solipsism #metaphysics