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“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This body of ours, this disguise put on my co...

“This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the
“This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot projec...

“We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all
“We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing. We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or f...

In order to overcome his sense of inner emptiness and impotence,
In order to overcome his sense of inner emptiness and impotence, [man] … chooses an object onto whom he projects all his own human qualities: his lo...

Becker’s radical conclusion that it is our altruistic motives
Becker’s radical conclusion that it is our altruistic motives that turn the world into a charnel house—our desire to merge with a larger whole, to...

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless w...