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"Becker’s recounting of Freudian psychoanalysis and the immediate and direct influences of Freud, in addition to selective biographical information and occasional laugh out loud quips - have made this book far more enjoyable than I ever would have expected. Most people see Freud and roll their eyes, I was the same way. Can’t wait to read more of his detailing of prescriptive heroism." — May 31, 2022 07:49AM
"Becker’s recounting of Freudian psychoanalysis and the immediate and direct influences of Freud, in addition to selective biographical information and occasional laugh out loud quips - have made this book far more enjoyable than I ever would have expected. Most people see Freud and roll their eyes, I was the same way. Can’t wait to read more of his detailing of prescriptive heroism." — May 31, 2022 07:49AM
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
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