For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was…

J. D. Salinger
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For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place. ✨ j.d. salinger (1961). franny and zooey
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