4 Quotes Tagged: dissociation

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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.