The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
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All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.Henry Miller
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
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