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Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.

— Wilhelm Stekel Marriage at the Crossroads (1931)

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Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel (1950)

Every resistance reveals the ego (one's own) in conflict with another.

Obedience is the giving up of the resistance; obstinacy the setting up of fresh resistances.

Defiance is the reaction against activity (aggression) of the environment.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

The Book Of Friendship: Making Life Better (2001)

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
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Suman Pokhrel

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