“The average ego, the average individual, remains fixed in the group, although in the course of development he is compelled to give up the original security of the unconscious, to evolve a conscious system, and to take upon himself all the complications and sufferings which such development entails.”
― The Origins and History of Consciousness
― The Origins and History of Consciousness
“Wśród wrzeszczących jestem niemową, wśród dewotów ateistą, wśród krwiożerczych antysemitów Żydem, wśród fanatycznych lewaków oficerem białej gwardii, wśród zwariowanych ekologów, którzy mylą elektrownie jądrowe z bombą atomową, jestem radioaktywną cząsteczką wzbogaconego uranu, a wśród głodnych, chciałbym być manną.”
― Wyspy bezludne
― Wyspy bezludne
“If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up with golden tapestries, murderers turn good, and children who cry out of loneliness receive caring teachers who are really the children themselves moved back from adulthood to their early years. Yes, my daughter, the past is not fixed and unalterable. With faith and will we can change it, not erasing its darkness but adding lights to it to make it more and more beautiful, the way a diamond is cut.”
― Where the Bird Sings Best
― Where the Bird Sings Best
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