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The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Life
Values
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Store
Moment
Asking
Leading
Moments
Meaning
Depression
Constructivism
Else
Value
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Libido
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Sadness
Fermentation
Kind
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Merely
Objectively
Something
Existence
Questions
Unsatisfied
Men
Happened
Neither
Admitting

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