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“Once we know, on a deep level, that we must die, we choose, in various ways, purposely to give up our life in order to dispel the unbearable feelings of helplessness and dread.”
― Robert W. Firestone, The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses

“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“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

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight