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"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."
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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
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"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
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