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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
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Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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