Rollo May book Love and Will
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21
“It is the rare society that does not abuse its artists.”
— Samuel R. Delany, book Flight from Nevèrÿon
Section 7.2 (p. 216)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
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