"Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them."

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Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

Karl Abraham

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“It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.”
“When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.”
“God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.”
“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”
“It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.”

Source : Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan
“You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.”

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.”

Source : Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.
“I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.”

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