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

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Relationship
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Inescapable
Intimacy
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Courage

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