“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
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“We're the middle children of the history, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.”
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”
― Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
― Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
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