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The Waves • Virginia Woolf““To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson“[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.”
Self-Analysis • Karen Horney“As a wolf resembles a dog, so both a flatterer and an adulterer and a parasite resemble a friend. Take care then that instead of watch dogs you do not without knowing it let in mischievous wolves.”
Fragment • Epictetus“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset