Psychology Quotes by Doris Lessing

12 Psychology quotes by Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing’s prose often drifts into the terrain of self‑knowledge. Though brief, these twelve quotes capture her thoughtful exploration of how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

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People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think…

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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this…

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“The point is, it seems to me that my mind is a mass of totally contradictory attitudes about everything.’ ‘Everyone’s mind is…

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“To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded,…

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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to…

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“Research was going on into the tendency of the human mind to see things in pairs—either/or, black/white, I/you, we/you, good/bad, the forces…

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Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of…

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“Oh, yes, Alice did know that she forgot things, but not how badly, or how often. When her mind started to dazzle…

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“Most people cannot stand being alone for long. They are always seeking groups to belong to, and if one group dissolves, they…

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“As in the political sphere, the child is taught that he is free, a democrat, with a free will and a free…

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“He was captured, tortured by the French, escaped, rejoined the F.L.N., and found himself torturing, under orders to do so, French prisoners.…

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“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I…

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You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all…

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I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…

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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…

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“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I haven't got the energy to write now.

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

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“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”

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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at…

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The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

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