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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
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Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
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