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There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Find
Creation
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Joy
Curiously
Particular
Mild
Comes
Expressed
Sense
Sharp
Form
Ecstasy
Better
Required

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