One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.