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"Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ['Taken for a ride']"
"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."
"My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist."
"Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else " someone like the blonde ticket-seller."
"Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer."
"For marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."
"When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity."
"To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
"Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?''What?''A sport!''And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy."
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
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"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England."
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."
"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
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