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Justin Kern
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Extinction
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What we have now is the artificial human being, and we’re alarmed when we come across a natural human being again, because it’s something we’re not prepared for, because for so long we’ve been confronted only with artificial human beings,
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“everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.”
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“Hope is the vehicle of waiting.… By ridding oneself of hope one rids oneself of the cruelty of waiting. It allows for realism, which is not pessimism, but a dark kind of optimism”
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“Only he will deserve the name of “man” and can count upon anything prepared for them from above, who has already acquired corresponding data for being able to preserve intact both the wolf and the sheep entrusted to his care.”
― Meetings With Remarkable Men
― Meetings With Remarkable Men
“Reality is here and now, everywhere, gleaming through every reflection that meets the eye.... Everybody is a neurotic, down to the last man and woman. The healer, or the analyst, if you like, is only a super-neurotic.... To be cured we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another--it is a private affair which is best done collectively.”
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“>>I'm cummin' round more'n'more to Your earliest=Levanthine pointa view, Dan, >that the world may well have originated less from a creative and far more from a destructive principle< ... - : aren't we ruled=t'day by a wind that produces great lethargy (&thirst)?...<”
― Zettels Traum
― Zettels Traum
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