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Patients with borderline personality disorder lack the capacity to establish a coherent self-concept. Instead, they adopt

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What the artists, like the alchemists, probably did not realize was the psychological fact that they were projecting part

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Even a complaint, making a complaint, can give life some spice and make it endurable: there is a small dose of revenge in

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In the era of binge-watching and handheld screens, the business of escapism—the business of keeping people staring at screens—

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When you fire and wire the same circuits in your brain over and over again because you keep thinking the same thoughts, you

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Where there was once the ‘real,’ there is now only the electronic generation and circulation of almost supernatural

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For the only world that man knows is the empirical world of phenomena, of ‘appearances,’ and that world exists only to

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You have to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

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Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.

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I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it.

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