“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Einstein
"I'm making such a lot of money from articles - £22 since Xmas so I'm saving it up to be married but Evelyn [Waugh] says 'don't save it, dress better and catch a better man. Evelyn is always so full of common sense.'"
Nancy Mitford writing to Mark Ogilvie-Grant in March 1929
"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead." Nancy Mitford, Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1955)
"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain." Ronald Firbank.
"Whenever a young child exhibits the symptoms of a neurosis one should not waste too much time examining his unconscious. One should begin one's investigations elsewhere, for almost invariably the parents are either the direct cause of the child's neurosis or the most important element in it." Jung - The Development of Personality
“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words
We know a lot more about brain chemistry since the days of Dr Jung. Many people are mentally ill when it's not the parents' fault, although others will unfairly blame them.
ReplyDeleteA neurosis is not a mental illness. Psychoses (principally schizophrenia and manic depression) are mental illnesses.
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