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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”

– Alain de Botton

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Thought provoking, i see it.

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Reading_Rando

Thanks for getting philisophical, I love stuff like this. That quote though is a good summation of Freud. He was among the first people to suggest that humans do things for reasons we arnt always consciencious of, an idea so common now we cant imagine that people ever thought any differently.

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how unaware we are that we are unaware...

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