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“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships

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“Becoming is better than being”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

tags: 1960s

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“Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents