The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

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...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...