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“Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate, build exaggeratedly high defenses against the outside world, against new people, new places, different experiences, and leave their inner world stripped bare.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“Oddly enough, I never used to suffer from depression on cold, grey, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occur: the rich, fleecy texture of image, its extraordinary plasticity and flexibility, its private nostalgic emotional hues - all are lost when image is crammed into language.”
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“The sentiment that one "should have done something more" reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After all, if one is guilty about not having done something that one should have done, then it follows that there is something that could have been done - a comforting thought that decoys us from our pathetic helplessness in the face of death.”
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
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