“I’ll let you explain me to myself—that sounds intelligent and fantastic. Don’t worry about offending me—that’s quite impossible. .”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”
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“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires.”
― Awakenings
― Awakenings
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