"The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all."
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"Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified…"
"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
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