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" We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. "
R. D. Laing
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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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" Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. "
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" Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. "
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