"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons."
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"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."
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"We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else."
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"A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable."
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"The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance."
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"Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
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"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life."
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"Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it."
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"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."
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"The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them."
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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
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"Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture."
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"I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."
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"Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses."
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"Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday."
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