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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life-experience
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    C.G. Jung
    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social
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    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    C.G. Jung
    “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: authenticity
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    C.G. Jung
    “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love
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    C.G. Jung
    “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: psychiatry, sanity
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  • #12
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression
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    Sigmund Freud
    “A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: love
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  • #15
    Sigmund Freud
    “The madman is a dreamer awake”
    ― S. Freud
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  • #16
    Sigmund Freud
    “Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Introduction à la psychanalyse
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  • #17
    Sigmund Freud
    “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: immorality, morality
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • #21
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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  • #22
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    ― George Orwell
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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  • #24
    George Orwell
    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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  • #25
    D.W. Winnicott
    “Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.”
    ― Donald Woods Winnicott
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  • #26
    D.W. Winnicott
    “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
    ― D.W. Winnicott
    tags: childhood, games, hidden-self, hide-and-seek, hiding, introversion, life, loneliness, self, solitude
    311 likes



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