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Norman O. Brown

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    Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

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    History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

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    I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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    In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

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    Love without attachment is light.

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    Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

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    Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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    Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

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    The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

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    The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

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    The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

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    The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

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    The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

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    The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

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    To be is to be vulnerable.

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    To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

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    To love is to transform; to be a poet.

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    Truth is error burned up.

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    Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

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    Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

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    For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.