"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."

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Source : "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

Lionel Trilling

#Neurosis Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Ends Quotes

“'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society”
“I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.”
“She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.”
“Interest is a terrible thing to waste.”

Source : Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer (2013). “Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson”, p.6, Psychology Press
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
“In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

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