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" Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. "

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" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

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" The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. "

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" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

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