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

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. – Douglas Busch

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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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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology. – D.H. Lawrence, St.Mawr

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