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“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”
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“Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”
― Introduction à la psychanalyse
― Introduction à la psychanalyse
“If children could, if adults knew.”
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“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.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
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