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“Because of the almost irresistible pull toward conformity in modern society, what we shall call ‘existential individuality’ is an achievement, and not a permanent one at that. We are born biological beings but we must become existential individuals by accepting responsibility for our actions. This is an application of Nietzsche’s advice to ‘become what you are’. Many people never do acknowledge such responsibility but rather flee their existential individuality into the comfort of the faceless crowd.”

- Thomas R. Flynn

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“We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silence and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech”

- William Carlos Williams

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"There're no graves for the living. No shadows to caress the sunlit guilt of living. There's no redemption for the damned. Everything I've done, everything I am is breathing, will go on breathing, breathing when my skeleton haunts my skin, when worms make love to the sockets of my eyes - a vain mortality." - Dr. Tom Masters from 'Silence', 'Unstill Life' Poetry - Book 2

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“This reminded me of psychotherapist Fritz Perls' famous observation: ‘Fear is just excitement without breath.’ In other words, fear is just excitement without embrace and approval for the sensations.” ― Carolyn Elliott

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“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

― Dorothy Parker

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"to awaken in a cheap room in a strange city and pull up the shade-- this was the craziest kind of contentment and to walk across the floor to an old dresser with a cracked mirror-- see myself, ugly, grinning at it all. what matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski from 'how is your heart?'

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“and don’t forget;

time is meant to be wasted,

love fails

and death is useless.”

- Charles Bukowski

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“I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host.”

― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

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