“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.”
“Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?”
“Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”
“Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?”
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”