Darius

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Darius’s Quotes

“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”
― Primo Levi

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“I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

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“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without...men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: adulthood, maturity, self-control

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