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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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metaphor
mysticism
psychosis
schizophrenia
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Joseph Campbell |
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Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it?
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fascism
future
german
government
nazism
power
psychosis
totalitarianism
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Philip K. Dick |
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That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.
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fear
help
helpless
obsession
psychosis
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Ryū Murakami |
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Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now. I wondered whether what I was experiencing was some sort of psychotic break, the sort that ambushes a person who until then has lived an ordinary life, auguring a new existence full of torment and struggle.
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psychosis
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Nicole Krauss |