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Quote by Sigmund Freud
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the su

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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