“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.”

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”

“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”

“The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.”

“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”

“I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.”