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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

Sigmund Freud · Experience

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Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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