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“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the immminent threat of release.”
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“Another girl, still in the latency-period, had succeeded in so completely repressing her envy of her little brother's penis — an affect by which her life was entirely dominated — that even in analysis it was exceptionally difficult to detect any traces of it. All that the analyst could observe was that, whenever she had occasion to envy or be jealous of her brother, she began to play a curious imaginary game, in which she herself enacted the part of a magician, who had the power of transforming and otherwise influencing the whole world by his gestures. This child was converting envy into its opposite, into an over-insistence on her own magical powers, by means of which she avoided the painful insight into what she supposed to be her physical inferiority. ... Once this was realized, it was easy for the analyst to deduce the presence of penis envy whenever the game of magic recurred.”
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“... love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.”
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“Fiction supplies the only philosophy that many readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.”
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“What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?”
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“... the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.”
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“We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.”
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“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”