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“With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery]. - Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID)”

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Source: Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

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Source: Wave

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Book:Loitering: New & Collected Essays

Source: Loitering: New & Collected Essays

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossiblity of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded; one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Edwards knew that the constant spending and deliberate time-wasting was taking a toll. 'I know that if I get to the end of this year I'll have no dignity left at all,' he said. 'It's all gone. I live in a big fantasy world... It's sad.' He'd often end the day drinking even more to block out the world and allow him to get to sleep.”

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Book:A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

Source: A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

“A human is a quantum supercomputer that has the ability to comprehend, master, and lead things on earth and in the skies. The point is to learn how to enable those abilities within and reach the maximum potential of our innate abilities.”

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Author:Aiyaz Uddin

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Book:Reluctant Immortals

Source: Reluctant Immortals

“Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck with this problem. You finally take it home and it wants to keep you up all night and cries when it isn’t sucking on various parts of your anatomy. It wants you there for everything – rocking, feeding, burping, changing... It’s ridiculous. If I wanted a kid I would have one. Until then, grow the hell up and stand on your own two feet, you little crazy.”

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“With regard to beasts, the noble man [acts] as follows. When he sees them alive, he cannot bear to see them die. When he hears their sounds, he cannot bear to eat their flesh. Therefore the noble man keeps a distance from the kitchen.” (Mencius 1A.7)”

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Book:Confucianism

Source: Confucianism

“From Mencius ... "If, however, dogs and swine eat that food which should be eaten by human beings, without thought being taken to put a stop to this practice, if people starve to death on the public highways, without thought being taken as to how to help them, and if one still says, in the face of the extinction of the population, 'It is not I who am to blame for this, but the bad year'—this is just the same as if one stabs a person to death and says, 'It is not I who did this, but the sword.”

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Book:Confucius and Confucianism.

Source: Confucius and Confucianism.