Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 74
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 7
Context: By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

“The most difficult element is perhaps the lack of privacy in my life.”
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As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 597

Antonio Labriola, Socialism and Philosophy (1897) [original in Italian]
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Variant: Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
Source: The Hollow Men (1925)