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“When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“Consciousness seems to be nature's ingenious mode of self-torture.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“But perhaps this is what normality is: a complex of dread and terror which compels the psyche to deny and restructure reality. Those who cannot ensconce themselves within social delusions either distort reality and hallucinate their own mirages, or they go mad.”
― Jerry S. Piven, Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror

“It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet