Regeneration
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Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.
(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth] That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering.
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.
Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics
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