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“In the trash can was one Tampax, spotted, still fresh from the insides of one of the Lisbon girls. Sissen said that he wanted to bring it to us, that it wasn't gross but a beautiful thing, you had to see it, like a modern painting or something, and then he told us he had counted twelve boxes of Tamp…”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: 'Obviously, Doctor,' she said, 'you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.'”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, Cecilia Lisbon, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness?”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“The God is where you are not.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“The spirit of the depths taught me to say: 'I am the servant of a child.' Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and dr…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“'No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries ? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and d…”

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“For the sake of my human weakness, the spirit of the depths gave me this word. Yet this word is also superfluous, since I do not speak it freely, but because I must. I speak because the spirit robs me of joy and life if I do not speak. I am the serf who brings it and does not know what he carries in…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book

“But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself ; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turns a mind into a tool. With a grip on the slippery, aimless activity of self-aware…”

— Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

“No matter how small the percentage of violent deaths may be, in absolute numbers there will always be enough of them to fill the evening news, so people's impressions of violence will be disconnected from the actual proportions.”

— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“Which is more valuable, good ideas or good people? No matter whether I was talking to retired business executives or students, to high school principals or artists, when I asked for a show of hands , the audiences would be split 50-50. (Statisticians will tell you that when you get a perfect split l…”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“There are many valid reasons why people aren't candid with one another in a work environment. Your job is to search for those reasons and then address them.”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“The truth is, as challenges emerge, mistakes will always be made, and our work is never done. We will always have problems, many of which are hidden from our view; we must work to uncover them and assess our own role in them, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; when we then come a…”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room for it to grow.”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“It is the responsibility of good leaders to make sure that words remain attached to the meanings and ideals they represent.”

— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc