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"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know."

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"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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