The Outsider

Chie Yoshii

Chie Yoshii

There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions — not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.

– Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

— Gilda Radner

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Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try to get ahead the best I can without hurting anyone until death takes over.

— Leon Tolstoy

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… We should go back to the old ways to heal. Americans will heal too, once they realize their wrongs.

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

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…the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality. `He sees too deep and too much,’ and what he sees is essentially chaos…he is the one man who knows he is…