Ego is a rat on the sinking ship of being.

The Carrot painted by Willem Frederick van Royen, 1599

You ask “What is life?” That is the same as asking “What is a carrot?” A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

— Anton Chekhov, Letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov, April 20, 1904

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