INTENSITY²
Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: El on March 10, 2017, 07:37:36 AM
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Crowdsourcing this. I'm trying to remember the exact wording and source of a quote that was something along the lines of "I do these things before the world can do them to me." I believe it was a holocaust survivor and I think he was self-injuring and.or starving himself. That I can't remember or find the exact source if bugging me. Anyone know what I'm talking about (or better than I apparently am at googling)?
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Maybe this:
"I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction."
Joanne Greenberg
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Maybe this:
"I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction."
Joanne Greenberg
I think so, yes.
Wow, did I misremember the context, lol. It's still apt, though.