O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks

Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should behave in just the same way. The way in which the readiness to love, however great, is banished by bodily ailments, and suddenly replaced by complete indifference, is a theme which has been sufficiently exploited by comic writers.