Sigmund Freud Quotes

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Sigmund Freud

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• Heroism
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  • Death
  • Heroism