"But what Freud showed usâ€¦ was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia."

-- Jacques Lacan

#Way Quotes #Symbolic Quotes

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan
“Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.”
“Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.”
“I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.”

Source : "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.
“I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.”
“There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

Source : Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

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