Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We … - Sigmund Freud

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Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

Sigmund Freud

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

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

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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.

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

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

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If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.

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