To the ego, love is poison.
Now many crises in people__ lives occur because the hero role that they__e assumed for one situation or set of situations no longer applies to some new situation that comes up, or__he same thing in effect__ecause they haven__ the imagination to distort the new situation to fit their old role. This happens to parents, for instance, when their children grow older, and to lovers when one of them begins to dislike the other. If the new situation is too overpowering to ignore, and they can__ find a mask to meet it with, they may become schizophrenic__ last-resort mask__r simply shattered. All questions of integrity involve this consideration, because a man__ integrity consists in being faithful to the script he__ written for himself. ____e said you__e too unstable to play any one part all the time__ou__e also too unimaginative__o for you these crises had better be met by changing scripts as often as necessary. This should come naturally to you; the important thing for you is to realize what you__e doing so you won__ get caught without a script, or with the wrong script in a given situation. You did quite well, for example, for a beginner, to walk in here so confidently and almost arrogantly a while ago, and assign me the role of a quack. But you must be able to change masks at once if by some means or other I__ able to make the one
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Now many crises in people__ lives occur because the hero role that they__e assumed for one situation or set of situations no longer applies to some new situation that comes up, or__he same thing in effect__ecause they haven__ the imagination to distort the new situation to fit their old role. This happens to parents, for instance, when their children grow older, and to lovers when one of them begins to dislike the other. If the new situation is too overpowering to ignore, and they can__ find a mask to meet it with, they may become schizophrenic__ last-resort mask__r simply shattered. All questions of integrity involve this consideration, because a man__ integrity consists in being faithful to the script he__ written for himself. ____e said you__e too unstable to play any one part all the time__ou__e also too unimaginative__o for you these crises had better be met by changing scripts as often as necessary. This should come naturally to you; the important thing for you is to realize what you__e doing so you won__ get caught without a script, or with the wrong script in a given situation. You did quite well, for example, for a beginner, to walk in here so confidently and almost arrogantly a while ago, and assign me the role of a quack. But you must be able to change masks at once if by some means or other I__ able to make the one
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