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“But after recovery, after they have chosen to live, these same people often truly live—passionately, in a way many other people never achieve. Survivors embody extremes of human experience, such that everyday misery is a near-stranger to them. At first, their pain is much worse than our everyday misery, by a factor so large that it would be difficult for most to conceive of it. And then later, after recovery, everyday misery is simply unacceptable. Life must be a passionate, conscious journey, or it is just not worth the survival effort. In”
― The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
― The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
“It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“He who poses as a fool is not a fool.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
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