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Well, not finished and wasn't sure what to think but when I read that Carl Jung considered midlife to be the period of greatest potential for personal growth it gave me a sense of hope I hadn't felt for awhile. "Attachments we once thought were vital
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“I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“I'm a fiend when it comes to good pastry, and the French make the best as far as I'm concerned.”
― Miles: The Autobiography
― Miles: The Autobiography
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