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The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing

by Mark Solms

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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.”
― Heraclitus

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“It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: the only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.”
― David Foster Wallace

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“Reality alone justifies everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

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“The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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