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title: "2 Repressed Experience Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-naomi-remen/unexplained-pain-may-sometimes-direct-our-attention-to-something/)

[Rachel Naomi Remen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-naomi-remen/)

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> [“An emotional outbreak may follow, accompanied by strong, legitimate reproaches, and only after this outbreak will a new link with repressed experience become clear and new vitality felt. As long as these reproaches are directed toward those who are responsible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-miller-the-drama-of-the-gifted-child/an-emotional-outbreak-may-follow-accompanied-by-strong-legitimate/)

[Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-miller-the-drama-of-the-gifted-child/)

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