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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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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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