“How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 79)
“The three extreme kinds of schizophrenia are unmistakable: the haunted paranoid surrounded by his imaginary community of spies and assassins, the clownish, sometimes incontinent hebephrenic, and the frozen catatonic.”
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Edward O. Wilson
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On Human Nature
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