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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

There are two kinds of writers. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

His beard is flecked with grey now, but even at 57 he still has a cherubic face that breaks easily into a broad, youthful smile. Only his eyes betray immense pain. Dignity is the word that comes to mind when one meets him.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

the IMF, those institutional bastions of belief in the free market system, believe that governments should not intervene in the exchange rate

It can't happen here" is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

The Utopian attempt to realize an ideal state, using a blueprint of society as a whole, is one which demands a strong centralized rule of a few, and which is therefore likely to lead to a dictatorship.

This is why the conflict between rationalism and irrationalism has become the most important intellectual, and perhaps even moral, issue of our time.

All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.

I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

But I have wealth he cannot touch, Spoiler of kings! For I have tasted agony And worn joy's wings.

dangerous trade, and she knew there was a bevy of analysts

present-day mental health practitioners have their heads firmly inserted in their asses and generally need more help than they provide.

Eva, no," I say, trying to quiet her down, but she doesn't listen. Within seconds she breaks into a barking fit and won't let up. The only way I can get her to stop is to turn the bag away from

And know, of all the words I have found, kindness is the most powerful. It can transform the world. At the end of my days, the only thing I will regret in my life are times when I was unkind.

suspense…Martin definitely

day in her father's study. Relief mingled with guilt as he

She fleetingly wished this handsome stranger could be the object of her desires, instead of his black-hearted companion.

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