“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31
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