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"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
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"Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!"

"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"

"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."

"How can you read and talk at the same time? I asked."Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging."

"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened."
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"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
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