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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene”
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“In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.”
― The Ego and the Id
― The Ego and the Id
“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Even in laboratory animals we have found that affective goal directedness can spoil the Pavlovian experiment. When, during a bell food training session, the dog’s beloved master entered the room, the animal lost all its previous conditioning and began to bark excitedly. Here is a simple example of an age old truth: love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
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