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“One of the effects of a safe and civilised life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“If you could choose your parents,... we would rather have a mother who felt a sense of guiltat any rate who felt responsible, and felt that if things went wrong it was probably her faultwed rather have that than a mother who immediately turned to an outside thing to explain everything, and said it was due to the thunderstorm last night or some quite outside phenomenon and didnt take responsibility for anything.”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)
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