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    Sigmund Freud
    “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: love
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    Sigmund Freud
    “It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”
    ― Sigmund Freud , Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: defenseless, love, suffering
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    Sigmund Freud
    “When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: complaining, illness, neurosis, neurotics, stubborness
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: creation, happiness
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  • #7
    Sigmund Freud
    “Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Introduction à la psychanalyse
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  • #8
    Sigmund Freud
    “There are no mistakes”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: gallows-humor
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    Sigmund Freud
    “I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
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    Sigmund Freud
    “As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
    tags: alone, analysis, discoveries, greatness, intellect, intellectual-thought, profundity, solitude, solutions, work
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  • #12
    Sigmund Freud
    “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: growth, re-growth
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  • #13
    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
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    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
    tags: cameras, photography
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    Susan Sontag
    “Sanity is a cozy lie.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: sanity
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    Susan Sontag
    “The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
    tags: heartbreak, love, love-hurts
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  • #21
    Susan Sontag
    “Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
    ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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  • #22
    Susan Sontag
    “I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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    Susan Sontag
    “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: action, apathy, compassion, images
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  • #25
    Susan Sontag
    “I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
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  • #26
    Susan Sontag
    “I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
    tags: one-way-streets, space, time, walter-benjamin
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