Sunday, December 05, 2004

On the Other Hand, This is What Hell Looks Like

"Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you."
-Leonora Carrington in an interview with Rosemary Sullivan,
cited by Michael Ondaatje in his novel, Anil's Ghost

"I had this fantasy of kidnapping women, making them fall in love with me and living happily ever after."
Alberta rapist, quoted by Robert Matas, in The Globe and Mail,
March 24, 2001, p. A9

"I wanted to find one law to cover all of living. I found fear..."
-Anne Carson,
cited by Michael Ondaatje in his novel, Anil's Ghost

"Evil arises from the avoidance of one's own suffering."
-Scott Peck

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