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• That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Suicidal, Darkness, Addresses

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

  Virgil

  Death, Passion, Dust

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• The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Country, Sex, Greed

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• Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Joy, Sake

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.330, Routledge

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• Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

  Sue Grafton

  Play, Feelings, Age

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Past, Asceticism

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• In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Teenager, Character

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• In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

  James E. Faust

  Change, Selfish, Thinking

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Powerful

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• Didn't we all have dreams when we were young? But the reality of making a living took over when we had to pay our bills, rent our apartments, raise our families, and take care of others. We sacrificed our dreams, repressed them, or delegated them to the background until they were so far away that we forgot they ever existed.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Dream, Reality, Care

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• The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

  P. D. James

  Daughter, Hurt, Children

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.101, Vintage

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• In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

  Paul Tillich

  Expression, Safety, Creative

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

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• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Sex, Children

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Design, Church

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• If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

  Wally Lamb

  Unhappy, Wanted, Ifs

  Wally Lamb (2011). “She's Come Undone”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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• I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

  Mary Whitehouse

  Sex, Truth, Growing Up

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• It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

  Julie Taymor

  People, Dangerous

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• Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

  Yasutaka Tsutsui

  Dream, Thinking, Mind

  FaceBook post by Yasutaka Tsutsui from Dec 28, 2016

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• I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

  Anne Desclos

  Military, Thinking, Discipline

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• There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Lying, Eye

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Like Love, Weather, People

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• They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
  [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
  Res angusta domi.]

  Juvenal

  Home, Poverty, Ability

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• ... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

  Freya Stark

  Sex, Love Is, Roots

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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