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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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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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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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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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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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