"She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.”

Source : Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.107, Shambhala Publications
“Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.”
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.”
“The fear is for what is still to be lost.”
“What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts”
“If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public”
“I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.”
“I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.”

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