"But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization."
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"I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis."
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"Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity"
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"Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis"
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"The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness."
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"In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not."
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"our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses."
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"I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature."
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"Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did."
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