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Among all sins, there is one which completely opposes the major blessing of human life, which is your love for your brother: there is no worse sin than to destroy this major joy of life, by feeling rage and hatred for your brother. Seneca, a wise man from Rome, said that when you want to escape from your rage, when you feel that it grows, the best

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The Age of Rage

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N. K. Jemisin • The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2017 (Broken Earth Trilogy)

Anger makes you act. It burns through you and delivers you somewhere new.

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Allowing oneself to be taught by one’s rage, thereby transforming it, disperses it. One’s energy returns to use in other areas, especially the area of creativity.

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“We cannot sacrifice something unless we have first possessed it. Anger can be overcome only by someone who has experienced it first within himself. Instead of trying to evade such emotions, we must transmute them in ourselves. By transmuting anger, we rise from the Sentient Soul, where noble anger can flame out, to the Intellectual Soul and the Co... See more

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shut up,

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Seneca defines anger, following an older philosophical tradition, as “the desire to avenge an injury,” including injuries which the person believes has been, or will be, imposed: “anger is aroused by the direct impression of an injury”