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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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