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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Talk to ourselves in the same way we'd talk to someone we'd love. Yes, you made a mistake. You're hu...

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Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over fo...

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all hum...

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Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belong...

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

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Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I...

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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...

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