Malcolm Azania - From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007)

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All of them cite that toxic spew, even though there's not a syllable of supporting evidence. Because the controversy itself became news. Save a country, save a world, save a child—it doesn't matter. You don't need proof or even evidence to burn down a man's soul. All you need is accusation.

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That diabolical deviant is smarter than he smells.

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As Carl Jung said, avoidance of legitimate suffering is the root of all mental illness. And one truth you must suffer is that everything and everyone you love will eventually die.
Even gods.

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Paranoia speaks to a deeper drive than fear. Paranoia is a defiant charge to a cold, unfeeling cosmos: Hear me! I exist! I'm important! Because after all, if someone is actually orchestrating the chaos of the universe against you personally, then you do matter. When no one seems to care anymore, at least enemies give you the comforting illusion that you count.

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The id isn't satisfied with enough, because enough is never enough. The id always needs more, or specifically, more than anybody else. So enough becomes more than which becomes all. And even then, the id fears that all can be taken away; therefore crushing the capacity of others to resist becomes paramount.

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When people are suffering, they usually hurt the people closest to them, because those are the only ones left around.

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Hnossi glowered at her daughter, a look cold enough to freeze sunshine and shatter it on the pavement.

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What do I 'feel'? he sneered... Did you actually ask me what I 'feel'? I 'feel' I'm surrounded by morons!

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It's inevitable that worship decays into contempt, because worship is ultimately about being trapped, being a slave.

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Take responsibility for your own happiness, rather than claiming telepathy you don't have (unless you are telepathic) or ascribing to others ugly thoughts you can't verify, and aiming endless, nonspecific blame for your mediocrity at the Trilateral Commission, the media, SKULL, the RAND Corporation, the long-disbanded Treemasons, the MAN, the Black Helicopter Legion, or the perennial favorite of paranoiacs, Them.

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I never sought glory. Basic respect would suffice.

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The self-delusion that mysterious forces and persons unknown are conspiring against us is, surprisingly, a comforting belief, because it means we're significant enough in this anarchic world to warrant someone's enmity. That delusion saves us from the far more difficult to accept reality: that we're not that important to anyone. That the universe just isn't into us.
Paranoia is the emotive-psychestructure's response to feeling ignored, unloved, or forgotten in an existence filled with random acts of destructive indifference emphasizing the inherent futility of life and struggle. If you're ever to achieve serenity, ultimately you must accept that in such a vast cosmos, you simply don't matter very much.

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You know, in my experience, said Kareem, caging his fingers and drawing out his words, the jokers... who talk the most about 'playing the race card'... are the people who own all the diamonds... who've picked up the clubs... to beat down the spades... because they've got no heart.

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Babydoll, when ain'nuthin funny, eat what's sweet. That's my philosophy.

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The two former lovers finally looked at each other, their faces crawling with the crabs of conflicting emotion.

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When dysfunctional self-distraction devolves into delusional self-destruction, neurosis turns into psychosis.

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We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it's time to get up.

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Even if victory were possible, it still couldn't provide meaning or genuine happiness, because saying I want to be the best is simply the polite way of saying I want everyone else to be worse.

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Believing in anyone more than you believe in yourself causes you to suspend your own judgment, which leads to counter-self-actualization, or self-deactivation.

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Lack of verifiability was a paranoiac's playground paradise.

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