We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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R.D. Laing Quote
“True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself, to actualize oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.”
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