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"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat."
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"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
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"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
Age
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
Man
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
Life
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
Psychology
"A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him."
Character
"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
Psychology
"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
Philosophy
"We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism."
History
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
Character
"A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."
Philosophy
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