Index of Half-Remembered Truths

Here is my index of half-remembered truths, a collection of phrases once overheard and traces of quotes hastily transcribed and recorded, each, by now, half-invented.

I can no longer discern where my own thoughts end and the borrowings of others begin. I have borrowed more than I can now remember from books and from men.

But the measure of the writer lies in the expanse and disorder of their library. What follows, then, is a partial record of the texts that shape my thought.