"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
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"If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."
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"Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate."
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
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"Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect."
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"Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination."
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"It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love."
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"That which we can't remember, we will repeat."
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"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it."
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"If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
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"My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection."
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"So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other."
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"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.""
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"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love."
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"Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system."
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"The goal of all life is death"
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"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
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