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• The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
• From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence…
• We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more…
• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is…
• Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
• In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social…
• The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the…
• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -…
• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
• If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I…

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