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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."

"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."

"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."

"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."

"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."

"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"

"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat."
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."


"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."


"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."


"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."


"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."


"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."


"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."


"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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