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The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
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Karl Gustav Jung
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Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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