No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

Sigmund Freud

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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Sigmund Freud

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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

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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Sigmund Freud

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Sigmund Freud

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

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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.

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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Sigmund Freud

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I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

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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.

Sigmund Freud

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I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Sigmund Freud

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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Sigmund Freud

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

Sigmund Freud

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

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