“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
— Paul Tillich, book The Courage to Be
Source: The Courage to Be
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