I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patientMarcel Proust
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.
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Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept of them.
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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