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“Because it is dangerous to
ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is,
the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some
method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to
subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen
until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay,
often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― The Secret History
ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is,
the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some
method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to
subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen
until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay,
often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― The Secret History
“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
―
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
―
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