• But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

    Philip O Ceallaigh: But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
    Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”