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“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.”
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”
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“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
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—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
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