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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a so

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

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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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