Quote by Renata Adler
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly th

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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

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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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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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