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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."
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"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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