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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

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
Humans
Life
Uncontrolled
Unreliable
Concerns
Sexual
Average
Concern
Human

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