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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

Category:
Cynicism
Author
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

Category:
Self-Respect
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. – Wilhelm Stekel

Category:
Psychology

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. – C.G. Jung

Category:
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

Category:
Psychology

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. – G.K. Chesterton

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Psychology

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We write to remember our nows later. – Terri Guillemets

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I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesnt make any difference what the interest rate is. Theyre not – theyre not going to loan the money because they cant make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance. – Rick Perry

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Judith slept far into the morning the sound, deep sleep of exhaustion; that sleep of the heavy-hearted from which, almost by an effort of will, the dreams are banished. – Amy Levy (1861–1889), Reuben Sachs: A Sketch, 1888

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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children. – Jock Sturges

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