"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way,……" — Slavoj Žižek
"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed."
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38 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
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On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully…
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For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans…
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We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending…
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Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a…
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True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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