Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively s…

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Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
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