“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.”
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.”