"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name."

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Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

Ugo Betti

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“How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.”
“I love the sport and being competitive.”

Source : "London 2012: Zara Phillips deals deftly with media's royal obsession" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2012.
“I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.”
“No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.”
“We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,
“I like it when I can get really abstract.”
“I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now." - Rio”
“So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.”

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