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"Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home."
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"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."

"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."

"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."

"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

"Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer."

"And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all."

"Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."


"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."


"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."


"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."


"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."


"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."


"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."
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