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Quote by Sigmund Freud
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – 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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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. – Sigmund Freud

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Experience
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Sigmund Freud
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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