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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

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