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• The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Attention, Pay

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• Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

  Mary McCarthy

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

  Richard Brautigan

  Technology, World, Gallows

  1970 The Abortion: An Historical Romance.

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Hollywood

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• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, Two, Important

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  SIGMUND FREUD (1933). “NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS”

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• The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

  Georges Bataille

  Blood, Giving, Battle

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• To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Thinking, Actors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Life, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Maturity, Men

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud (Lecture 35 "A Philosophy of Life"), 1933.

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• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  William Styron

  Writing, Age, Literature

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

  Clive Barker

  Psychosis, Anxiety, Special

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• Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Insanity, Causes, Ends

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5109, Delphi Classics

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• The neuroses parody the virtues.

  Mason Cooley

  Virtue, Parody

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• For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Gone, Literature

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• The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Natural, Characteristics

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• I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Literature, Action, Difficulty

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• When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Fate, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 10, 2013

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• ...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

  Anne Fortier

  Taken, Pimples, Facts

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

  Marianne Williamson

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Teacher, Fear

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books

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• Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Used

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• The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheism, Tasks, Affliction

  The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8

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• So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

  Philip Kitcher

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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