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One Quotes by Susanna Kaysen
- This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in…
- Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to…
- Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
- It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a…
- Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is…
- Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate…
- I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my…
- It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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