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“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”
― Sigmund Freud

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“This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard.

It makes me so happy.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

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“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt

tags: emotions, sadness

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“I just need some time away to remember why I stay.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

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“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents