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“God did not hear the prayers of the fearful, for the hearts of the fearful held no belief.”
― Jeremy Leven, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S

“Everything that's organized is racing toward being disorganized. It's nature's highest law.”
― Jeremy Leven, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S

“Horror gives men peace of mind,” I told him. Kassler shuddered, and his smugness dissipated rapidly. “Some men,” he said weakly. “Most men . . . and women . . . and children. It makes you all right with the world. You come together to kill your enemies and your love for one another deepens and—at least until you become the victim—you’re comrades in arms. Your hatred for one another is purged through the suffering of one enemy.”
― Jeremy Leven, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.

“students. “ ‘Object’ is the word Dr. Freud uses to designate another human being,” he explained precisely. Kassler made a note of this in his brand-new spiral notebook and put a star beside it to signify a Major Concept. “Now,” Heinrich went on, “during childhood we are taught to keep the lid tightly clamped on this stockpot of instinctual drives”
― Jeremy Leven, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.