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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

— Otto Rank Truth and Reality (1936)

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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

Truth and Reality (1936)

The neurotic ... suffers, not from all the pathological mechanisms which are psychically necessary for living ... but in the refusal of these mechanisms, which is just what robs him of the illusions important for living.

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