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It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Wilhelm Reich

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Wilhelm Reich
Age: 60 †
Born: 1897
Born: March 24
Died: 1957
Died: November 3
Academic
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Sex Educator
Writer
Evasion
Basic
Essential
Essentials
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Men

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The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
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