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The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Insight
Guilt
Anxiety
Joy
Vision
Idea
Actualizing
Born
Inseparable
Ideas
Gratification

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