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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.
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Self-realization is not an anti-social principle; it is firmly based on the fact that men need each other in order to be themselves.
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.
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The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.
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It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.
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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
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So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
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Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Anthony Storr
Born:
May 18, 1920
Died:
March 17, 2001
(aged 80)
Bio:
Anthony Storr was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
Known for:
Solitude (1988)
Music and the mind (1992)
Feet of clay (1996)
Freud: A Very Short Introduction (1989)
The dynamics of creation (1972)
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