"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

Death, Life, Purpose

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"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

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"Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

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"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."

Fear

"We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee."

Imagination

"The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous."

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"Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor."

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"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

Philosophy

"Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Relationship

"Shame is a soul eating emotion."

Emotion

"Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious."

Knowledge

"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum."

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