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" Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. "

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" Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. "

" A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. "

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" Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. "

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" Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. "

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" If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. "

" Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "

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" He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. "

" A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. "

" We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. "

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