"We are never so defensless against suffering as……" — Sigmund Freud
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
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- We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
- When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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- Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
- An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been…
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- Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
- It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole…
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