“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.”

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American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist 1902–1994

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“Love is not love at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has so died.”

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