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“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
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