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The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.