"Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis."
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"Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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"The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural."
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"Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance."
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"I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match."
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"Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."
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"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient"
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives."
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"People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting."
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"This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects."
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"The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses."
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"Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity."
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"Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization."
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"Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom."
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"The more neurosis the more wisdom."
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"There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time."
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"We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort."
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"I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that."
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"I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis."
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