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“Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Sometimes a person will do just about anything for a wish to come true.”
― Fish In A Tree
― Fish In A Tree
“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow. Then one day, maybe many months after your decision to take your son out of school and isolate him in a house for reasons that got lost in your grief, one day that madness will stir in the chair, and it will say to him, 'You look pale.”
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“The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.”
― Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
― Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
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