We have to accept that this loss of reality, this entry into... - R.D. Laing

"We have to accept that this loss of reality, this entry into this unreal phantom world is not a new event or a new possibility. It began long ago."

R.D. Laing History

Psychiatrist Philosopher British 1927–1989

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"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."

"If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I don't know, I think I don't know."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

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