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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

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Wilfred Bion
Age: 82 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 8
Died: 1979
Died: November 8
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion
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Adversity
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