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Life is not breath, but action; to live is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, every part of ourselves which gives us the feeling of our own existence.
Rousseau
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Rubenstein, J. Ambivalence in play and ritual. Am J Psychoanal 40, 73–83 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01253542
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