Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating. ✨ William Jam…

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Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating. ✨ William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). Essays in Philosophy, p.16, Harvard University Press
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