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Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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