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“How long had he not heard that voice, how long had he not reached any height, how even and bleak his path had been. For many long years, with no high goal, no thirst, no exaltation, he had been content with minor pleasures and yet never satisfied! All these years unbeknownst to himself, he had striven and yearned to become a human being like these many, like these children; and yet his life had been much poorer and more wretched than their lives, for their goals were not his, their worries not his.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“… confession is now performed in the therapist’s office or talk shows; marriage is now largely a matter for lawyers and judges, not ministers or priests. Szasz argues very convincingly that the diagnosis of mental illness, psychopathy, personality disorders etc. are far better understood as tools of social control than as objective scientific analysis.”
― Th. Metzger, Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend

“We can live the stories or hear about them later from others. I choose the former.”
― Charlie Sheen, The Book of Sheen