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Jerome A. Miller
“this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.”
Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

Jerome A. Miller
“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

“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

Alan W. Watts
“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

Fernando Pessoa
“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

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