"A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life."
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"Love and work, work and love...that's all there is."
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"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast."
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"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."
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"The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright."
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"Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature."
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"If you can't do it, give up!"
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"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
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"There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare."
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"The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation."
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"It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one."
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"The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable."
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"Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss."
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity."
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"No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society."
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"Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers."
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"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."
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"As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction."
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