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" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

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" The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. "

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" Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. "

" 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. "

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" A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "

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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. "

" The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. "

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