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"I am glad that I do not have any children."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

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"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."

"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."

"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."

"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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