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“You mustn't be afraid of the dark... Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.”
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“For those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.”
― This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman, Penguin 1986 Edition
― This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman, Penguin 1986 Edition
“Until quite recently, psychiatrists believed that schizophrenia was a psychological illness caused by stress and upbringing, particularly by the influence of a "schizophrenogenic mother" who did not provide her child with enough maternal warmth and care. Today, this theory has been soundly discredited. Schizophrenia, as we now know, is a disease caused by abnormal brain structure and function, just as heart disease is a product of faulty arteries.”
― The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
― The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
“If all the dew were diamonds...we would be very rich. We would be drunk all our lives.”
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“Yet although this particular delusion, at least in the form of a large-scale public enterprise, has vanished from the western world, the urge to hunt 'witches' has done nothing of the kind. It has been revived on a colossal scale by replacing the medieval idea of malefic witchcraft by pseudo-scientific concepts like 'race' and 'nationality,' and by substituting for theological dissension, a whole complex of warring ideologies. Accordingly, the story of 1692 is of far more than antiquarian interest: it is an allegory of our times. One would like to believe that leaders of the modern world can in the end deal with delusion as sanely and courageously as the men of old Massachusetts dealt with theirs.”
― The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
― The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
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