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«People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.»
«My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.»
«Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.»
«Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior»
«Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.»
«Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.»
«Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.»
«Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.»
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
«Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.»

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