What stops you here is what stops your entire life. The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father will be too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.
When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake. With insomnia, nothing is real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
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Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
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