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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."
"I am a mask, concealing the real."
"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
"Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first."
"Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched."
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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
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