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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.

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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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