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Irvin D. Yalom

I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Anything Beter Met never Something Take Way
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Credo Import Therapeutic Life Living Perhaps Single Unexamined Worth
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Alway Death Does Door However Inner Itch Scratch Some Time
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Like More Unlive
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Cease Climb Enough Height Loo Reach Tragedy Tragic We
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Away Concern Cure Dear Death Interpersonal Meet Neurotic Psychoneurious Rejection Seem Sense
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Ambition Awareness Death Drive Fact More People Temper Twenty
I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Brook Comfort Obvious Other Put Ripple Sense Source Stone Think
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Field Finish Medicine Other Psychiatry Really Straight Unlike
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Book Future Idea might None Part Patient Reality Say Some Trouble

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