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To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Self-Respect
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Category:
Cynicism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. – Wilhelm Stekel

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Psychology

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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Psychology

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. – Jerome Lawrence

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Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. – Hermann Ebbinghaus

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. – Julius Caesar

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Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Author Unknown

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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