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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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud

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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. – Sigmund Freud

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. – Bhagavad Gita

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is. – Arbie M. Dale

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. – Voltaire

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If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. – Mary Daly

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All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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I dont do the gym and I dont diet. Im vegetarian but I dont diet. – Pamela Anderson

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