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

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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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