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Quote by Sigmund Freud
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and a

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud

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If a man has been his mothers undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. – Sigmund Freud

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