Quote by E.M. Cioran
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanaly

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. – E.M. Cioran

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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! – E.M. Cioran

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How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. – G.K. Chesterton, London Observer, 9 December 1934

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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. – Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943

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