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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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