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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
Edward Bond
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
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