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

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

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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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

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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. – Sonia Johnson

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