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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Requires
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Relationship
Actualization
Risk
Outset
Cannot
Inescapable
Intimacy
Affect

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