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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

— Sigmund Freud

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  1. Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.
  2. Such progress we have made! In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me as a witch, but now they are content to burn my book.
  3. Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
  4. The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
  5. Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
  6. The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the…
  7. Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else …
  8. The moment a man begins to question the meaning and value of life, he is sick.

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  • psychology
  • meaning
  • interpretation
  • simplicity

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