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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Complex Conduct Direct Elimination Man World
Without love we fall ill.
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Ill Love One Liner
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Beauty Civilization Culture Necessary
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Future Illusion Knowledge Science Suppose
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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Confusion Illusion Question Reality Religion System
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Deep Expectation Need Slave Want
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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Environment Height Interest Love Lover Relationship Sufficient
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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Against Defense Help Lost Love Object Suffering Unhappy
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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Children Equality Grow Up Himself Oppressive Pleasure Superior
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Bring Disappointment Finding Hard Impossible Life Pain Task
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Actual Content Dreams Himself Life Man Virtue Wicked
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Condition Construction Psychology Public
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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Drink Knowledge Master Men Mind Ordinary Poet Science Stream
I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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Experience Goodness Human Being Trash
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Funny Masterbation Sarcastic Shame
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Bite Capable Dog Enemy Friendship Hate Love People Pure Quite

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