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" Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. "
Sigmund Freud
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" A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. "
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" The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. "
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" Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. "
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" 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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" Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. "
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" The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' "
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" The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. "
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" If youth knew; if age could. "
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" 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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" Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. "
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" Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. "
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" It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. "
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" The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. "
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" We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. "
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" Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. "
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" Anatomy is destiny. "
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" The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. "
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" The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. "
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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. "
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" Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. "
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