Painterly smoking cigar resting on a red silk cushion in warm light.

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Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The aphorism allows an ordinary object to remain ordinary instead of requiring a hidden symbolic explanation. Its sometimes leaves room for other readings. The Freud attribution remains unverified.

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