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Quote by Erich Fromm
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if not

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. – Erich Fromm

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. – Terry Pratchett

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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows its like a party. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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I am a dreamer. Seriously, Im living on another planet. – Eva Green

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Not every religion has to have St. Augustines attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesnt prevent it being a religious ceremony. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. – Michael Ende

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