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TIL Sigmund Freud's personal library in London has over 1600 books showing his wide range of interests and are still searchable today through the Freud Museum. Authors Freud had include Darwin, Locke, Feuerbach, Krafft-Ebing, Shakespeare, Goethe and Dostoevsky

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