What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.