# Quote — Norman Mailer, An American Dream

> Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

- Author: [Norman Mailer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer.md)
- Book: [An American Dream](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/an-american-dream.md)
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> I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

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> The only true journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

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