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"Anxiety springs from living hearts." (pg. 76)

"He had realised he didn't know himself, that he hadn't begun to know himself...Not that he was an exceptional person; no, he knew there was nothing special about him. But he felt that there was within him exceptional things, that everyone had these exceptional things, but some people like him suppressed them, killed them, and that was his secret fear, that he'd killed who he really was..." (p.104-105).

"Is translating experience into words an achievement at all? Or is it just the cause of all our unhappiness?...The world gets carried away with words, phrases, and elaborate paragraphs. One word leads to another and soon enough you have affairs, wars, genocide and the Anthropocene. Silence...is the only place where truth can be found. And what do we have instead? Noise--babble everywhere." (pg.4).