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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
– Sigmund Freud

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  7. I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. – Sigmund Freud
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  9. It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. – Sigmund Freud
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