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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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