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Morpheus

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

— The Matrix · 1999

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Some unease can't be explained but is felt anyway. Morpheus describes it as a lifelong sense that something is wrong with the world. It nags like a splinter in the mind, hard to locate and impossible to ignore.

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