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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.


Lucian Freud

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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