"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinari...

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one’s love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul.
~ Wilhelm Reich ~












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