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There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodor Reik

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Theodor Reik
Age: 81 †
Born: 1888
Born: May 12
Died: 1969
Died: December 31
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Vienna
Austria
Person
Least
Marked
Human
Secret
Forgetting
Humans
Forget
Roads
Self
Happiness
Seeking
Something
Happy
Achievement
Make
Words
Oneself
Love
Two
Lead
Like
Persons
Necessary

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