"But who was more tragic, or who was more damned—the man who knew it, or the man who did not?”

â Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical

I don't remember which part of the book this quote is from, but it's a great book about neuroscience with nonfiction short stories. The few I remember are about someone who doesn't believe their legs are theirs and keeps pushing them away, someone who believes they're dead, someone with hallucinations, and the title story. I've wanted to read this book for a while after I had heard about it in A conversation with Lawrence Krauss and Johnny Depp, which is also worth watching. Then someday it just randomly popped up at a bookmarket and without a thought it ended up in my hands. The best books are the books you pick up before realising.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a selfhimselfhe cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

â Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales