Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOMWe project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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