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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention t

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag

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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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famous
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Other Quotes from
Mental Illness
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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Mental Illness

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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Mental Illness

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