One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Love, Wrong, Attraction
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
Passion, Doctor
When you take the time to really know yourself - know your values, know your beliefs, know what is important to you - you can make the right choice, even when it’s hard.We all have choices. We can choose our direction, every single day.
Time, Beliefs, Direction
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.
Nature, Feminine
It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.
Reality, Imagination, Mind
...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...
Wisdom, People
There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.
Psychology, Self Hatred
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