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Description
An autobiography put together from conversations, writings and lectures with Jung's cooperation, at the end of his life.
Memorable Quotes
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being”
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“recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole”
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“For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic”
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“Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see”
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“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions”
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“The world into which we are born is brutal and cruel, and at the same time of divine beauty”
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“Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science”
First Sentence
MY ELEVENTH YEAR was significant for me in another way, as I was sent to the Gymnasium in Basel.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Carl Gustav Jung (Author)
- C. G. Jung
- Aniela Jaffe?
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