It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I pref… - Sheldon B. Kopp

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It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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Sheldon Bernard Kopp (March 29, 1929 – March 29, 1999) was an American psychotherapist and author.

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