Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.

~ Pierre Janet

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Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

~ Pierre Janet

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