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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.


Lucian Freud

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LUCIAN FREUD The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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LUCIAN FREUD Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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LUCIAN FREUD The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
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SIGMUND FREUD The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
SIGMUND FREUD Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have...
SIGMUND FREUD It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instin...
SIGMUND FREUD Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
SIGMUND FREUD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting t...
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SIGMUND FREUD What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of nee...
SIGMUND FREUD Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's e...
SIGMUND FREUD If youth knew; if age could.
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SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD If you can't do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUD Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
SIGMUND FREUD Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
SIGMUND FREUD Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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SIGMUND FREUD The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
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SIGMUND FREUD Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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SIGMUND FREUD The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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SIGMUND FREUD I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
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SIGMUND FREUD A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it a...
SIGMUND FREUD The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the laym...
SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there shall ego be.
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SIGMUND FREUD Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who ...
SIGMUND FREUD The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power...
SIGMUND FREUD I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who be...
SIGMUND FREUD Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
SIGMUND FREUD I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your who...
SIGMUND FREUD The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forc...
SIGMUND FREUD Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...
SIGMUND FREUD Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua...
SIGMUND FREUD What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with...
SIGMUND FREUD It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the ...
SIGMUND FREUD The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...
SIGMUND FREUD No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed che...
SIGMUND FREUD I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...
SIGMUND FREUD These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware t...
SIGMUND FREUD I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
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SIGMUND FREUD My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage
SIGMUND FREUD Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them,...
SIGMUND FREUD We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is un...
SIGMUND FREUD Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satis...
SIGMUND FREUD A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
SIGMUND FREUD Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
SIGMUND FREUD If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepar...
SIGMUND FREUD One is very crazy when in love.
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SIGMUND FREUD Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually ele...
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SIGMUND FREUD Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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SIGMUND FREUD The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
SIGMUND FREUD Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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SIGMUND FREUD How can one know anything at all about people?
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ANNA FREUD Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
ANNA FREUD Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
ANNA FREUD A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
ANNA FREUD If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
ANNA FREUD Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice t...
ANNA FREUD Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...
SIGMUND FREUD Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it aw...
SIGMUND FREUD It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...
SIGMUND FREUD Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUD If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet...
SIGMUND FREUD He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...
SIGMUND FREUD A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace...
SIGMUND FREUD Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence ...
ANNA FREUD I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would prob...
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Anatomy is destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the gi...
ANNA FREUD Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
SIGMUND FREUD Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...
SIGMUND FREUD In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ide...
SIGMUND FREUD Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
SIGMUND FREUD My different personalities leave me in peace now.
ANNA FREUD Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
CLEMENT FREUD