“It stood to reason that if the evil designer – the destroyer of minds, the friend of fever – had concealed the key of the pattern with such monstrous care, that key must be as precious as life itself and, when found, would regain for Timofey Pnin his everyday health, his everyday world”
― Pnin
― Pnin
“In the judgment of contemporary dream investigators, only a minority of dreams appear to express wishes of any kind, let alone infantile sexual ones.”
― Freud: The Making of an Illusion
― Freud: The Making of an Illusion
“The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have been able to save their peoples and some of their countrysides by destroying the rest of the world and reducing it's people to abject poverty.”
― We Have Never Been Modern
― We Have Never Been Modern
“From the mid-twentieth century until today, physiological and neurocognitive research has yielded a number of well-corroborated findings about dreams and the dreaming state. Although the brain scientists and the analysts of dream reports operate on different sets of assumptions, they are almost unanimous in putting aside the Freudian model, which turns out to have been erroneous on every point.”
― Freud: The Making of an Illusion
― Freud: The Making of an Illusion
“as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, “Only don’t, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another’s, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.”
― Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
― Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
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