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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”
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“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”
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“The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most”
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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
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“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
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“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”
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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
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“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
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“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”
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“Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.”
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