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“I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague would rest upon the support of a natural law while its archenemies, truth and sociality, would be relying upon unfounded ethics. Until now both lies and truth have taken recourse to ethics. But only lies have profited because they were able to appear under the guise of truth. Under these circumstances, egoism, theft, petty selfishness, slander, etc., would be the natural rule. (26.july.1943)”
― American Odyssey: Letters & Journals, 1940-1947
― American Odyssey: Letters & Journals, 1940-1947
“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”
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“The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.”
― The Function of the Orgasm
― The Function of the Orgasm
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
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“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!
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Javier’s 2025 Year in Books
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