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Quote by Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Happiness
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Sigmund Freud
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness
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Sigmund Freud
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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. – Sigmund Freud

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Personality
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Sigmund Freud
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience

More people should read books. Its the most concentrated experience you can have. – Vivienne Westwood

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Experience

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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Experience

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. – William Styron

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Experience

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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart thats the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. – William Odom

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The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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God

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. – Victor Hugo

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