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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."

"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
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