"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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"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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"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."

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

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"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

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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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"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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"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 are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."

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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."

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"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."

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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."

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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer

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"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

Lucius Accius, Italian Poet

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"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"Normality is death."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"Marriage is the death of hope."

Woody Allen, American Director

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