“Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily…”

—  Wilhelm Reich, book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

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