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“When I’m guilty I can outsweat Nixon.”

“Times are always strange. Art is always out of place. Always unnecessary when it’s made. And later, when you look back, it’s the only thing that mattered.”

“In fact, his nausea was the same kind of nausea that had sometimes been brought on by certain jingles, pop songs, or national anthems that he felt compelled to repeat word for word or hum to himself until he fell asleep.”

“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another.”

“Two years ago Jung’s booming laughter gave voice to a kind of robust gaiety and exuberant vitality, but now his earnestness is composed of pure aggression, ambition, and intellectual brutality.”

“It is of extraordinary significance that we can now learn from neurotics the way that feelings of guilt and anxiety which have quite another origin can attach themselves unwarrentedly to the most innocent actions.”

"Yesterday my hands shook so that I could not type. In the morning I drank half a bottle of Courvoisier, there being nothing else in the house. In the afternoon I drank more than half a bottle of Bushmills. Early to bed without another drink, but there wasn’t much left."

“I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.”

“They had nothing to be surprised at, nothing to resent; they had been told repeatedly that the spurious peace they lived in would not outlast their youth, and they were late to see that it was over.”