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To Live Within
Your soul went to the moon, to the preserver of souls. Thus the soul moved toward death. I went into the inner death and saw that outer dying is better than inner death. And I decided to die outside and to live within.
~ Carl Jung
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As I have several times had the opportunity to declare, I consider the modern remnants of patriotism a feeling of delirium, unconscious, out of date, as well as the direct cause of most of the troubles that afflicts humanity; a feeling to be annihilated once and for all, by any means, with the cooperation of every reasonable person. The army, the money, the school, the religion, the press, everything is in the hands of the ruling classes: at school they ignite patriotism in children, through stories in which their own people are invariably the best, as adults this feeling is confirmed by shows, holidays, monuments and, needless to say, by press
— Leo Tolstoy.
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One can’t lead a decent life in a society that isn’t decent.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Living is a journey; living is a struggle. People have everything and they still can’t do it, they struggle. We take ourselves too seriously. We think we’re somebody.
