The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death.Paul Valery
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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