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"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases."
"There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do."
"Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame."
"I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid."
"Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils."
"May all of your cards be live and may all of your pots be monsters."
"I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things."
"Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead."
"It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters."
"In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard."
"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."
"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
"I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen."
"To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it."
"If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water."
"CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!"
"I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not."
"Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you."
"Death is when the monsters get you."
"Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute."
