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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.

Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Audience Decision Happiness Knowledge Magic Power Sorrow Student Teacher Words
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Book Burn Content Past Progress
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
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Attempt Biology Control Development Place Psycology Religion World
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 someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Abuse Defend Praise Science Self Respect
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
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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Man Soft Weak Woman
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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Behaviour Human Being Life Reaction Sex
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Freedom Past Remember
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Beautiful Inspirational Strike Struggle Year
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Condition Construction Psychology Public
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
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Funny Masterbation Sarcastic Shame
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Ability Innovation Tolerance
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Desire Love Relationship

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