Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
Sigmund FreudAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist, Scientist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: May 6, 1856
- Died: September 23, 1939
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