"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
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"If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears."
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"The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well."
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life."
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
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"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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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
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"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
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"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
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"If it's not one thing, it's your mother."
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"I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority."
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"One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure."
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"In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."
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"Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love."
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"Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love."
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"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."
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"Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other."
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"I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions."
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"The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious."
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