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• You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking… — Rajneesh
• Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away.… — Donald O'Connor
• In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of… — E. Stanley Jones
• Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf… — Peter Orner
• A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself .… — Aristotle
• The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way:… — Mikhail Bakhtin
• When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close… — Augusto Boal
• Art is a form of catharsis. — Dorothy Parker
• Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker
• By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In… — Unknown Author
• Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
• I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand. — Joan Didion

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