We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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