“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”
Wallace Stevens
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
“People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.”
“There are still some people out there who think that the gay community is a magical world, a masculine world, full of love, and kindness, and friendship. And it could still be...if only en masse they didn't keep chasing people with rusty axes who dare threaten to shatter their illusions.”
John Lewington
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”
