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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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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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