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Yes, America is gigantic, but a giant mistake.

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We must begin to love in order not to fall ill.

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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

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Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences.

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At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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The first requisite of civilization…is that of justice.

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The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

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'Itzig, where are you riding to?' 'Don't ask me, ask the horse.'

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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

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Regarding what a normal person should be able to do:
To love and to work.

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Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms.

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Three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.

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The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

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It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

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What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
Remark to Ernest Jones

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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenseless.

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Analogies decide nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at home.

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The mind is an iceberg—it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

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