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Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

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
Freud
Life
Grow
Intolerable
Grows
Burdens
Less
Disagreeable
Making
Gods
Death
Burden
Ends
Carry
Seems
Older
Kind
Perhaps
Manifold

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