"One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way."
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"I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you."
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"People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting."
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"Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death."
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"The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die."
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"The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist."
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"[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing."
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"Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy."
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"There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him."
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"Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours."
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"there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep"
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