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Michael Lassoff said:
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I like it very much, though it would be very hard at this point to say what exactly I like about it. It is cryptic but laden with good stories. Difficult ideas have never been so fun.
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Michael Lassoff said:
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It's cute. I suppose it does the same thing that Sogyal Trungpa did by being drunk all the time. I get the sense she is sneaking past people's defenses to eastern stuff and God by being cute about it.
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“It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.”
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“Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.”
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“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
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“The (narcissitic) rage may turn into, or be accompanied by, a cold hatred that gives her qualities of power, invincibility, and calculation. This hatred underlies the desire for vengeance, for wanting to inflict pain and suffering, and for actually enjoying getting back at the person who failed her.”
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“Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.”
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