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Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

James Hillman

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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Way
Woman
Obtain
Men
Nature
Tries
Seems
Psychology
Soul
Forgotten
Music
Everybody
Needs
Beauty
Trying
Whatever
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Something
Whether
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