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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“The obsessive desire to know yourself is itself a pathology. You're not healed when you wholly understand yourself but when you don't matter to yourself anymore. You're healed once you internalize you must fight for something bigger than yourself: you fight for your family; you fight for love; you fight for art; you fight for meaning. Maybe you fight for political change or perhaps you're a fanatical writer or scientist.
The real goal of psychoanalysis is paradoxical; it's precisely to liberate you from yourself-to bring you to the point where you can finally forget about yourself and work for a greater cause.”
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The real goal of psychoanalysis is paradoxical; it's precisely to liberate you from yourself-to bring you to the point where you can finally forget about yourself and work for a greater cause.”
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“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.”
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“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
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