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“Being in love (l’amour fou) a pathological variant of loving. Being in love = addiction, obsession, exclusion of others, insatiable demand for presence, paralysis of other interests and activities. A disease of love, a fever (therefore exalting). One “falls” in love. But this is one disease which, if one must have it, is better to have often rather than infrequently. It’s less mad to fall in love often (less inaccurate for there are many wonderful people in the world) than only two or three times in one’s life. Or maybe it’s better always to be in love with several people at any given time.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”
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“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
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“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
― Factotum: A Masterfully Vivid Autobiographical Novel―An Aspiring Writer's Raw Journey Through Alcoholism and Survival
― Factotum: A Masterfully Vivid Autobiographical Novel―An Aspiring Writer's Raw Journey Through Alcoholism and Survival
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