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"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me."
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"The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy."

"I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them."

"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"

"I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy."

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"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."

"Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed."

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

"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."

"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
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