There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. -R. D. Laing

 

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.


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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

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There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

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Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

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From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

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