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Rollo May Quotes: If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
         

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.


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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
         



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