“Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! / One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; / One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; / The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. Ulysses
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. Psychology of the Unconscious
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures
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