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1861–1937 Germany
Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a Russian-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.
Our first experience is, remarkably, of loss.
Let us see whether the vast majority of the so-called "insurmountable barriers" that the world draws are not harmless chalk lines!
The man that we love, regardless of the exalted state of both his spirit and his soul, remains a priest in his robes who only vaguely guesses what he is celebrating.
It delights me to note from year to year how long it takes for much that happens to one to become inner experience.
Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé Letters (Briefwechsel, ed. Ernst Pfeiffer) (1980)
In this I have no principle to put forth, but something much more wonderful -- something that is within oneself and is hot with sheer life, and rejoices and wants to come out.
What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.
Ah слава Богу [Russian for thank God] dear Rainer, how rich his gift to you -- and yours to me!
Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters (Briefwechsel, ed. Ernst Pfeiffer) (1952)
If for years I was your wife, it was because in you I encountered what is real for the first time: body and person indistinguishably one, an undeniable fact of life itself.
As truly as I'd love a friend,
The most daring thing we have invented was to become human, and, with that, the creation of human values as life's most sublime adventure.
For the angels [of the Duino Elegies] are not intermediaries, and that is important.
Bear in mind that the Narcissus of legend gazed, not at a man-made mirror, but at the mirror of Nature [a pool of water].
A genuine Nietzsche study would require the psychology of religion that would spotlight the meaning of his being, his suffering, and his self-induced bliss.
It occurs to me now that's why the mountains have the effect they do. As if one were seeing nature itself as it rises above all that's human and looks down upon it.
In truth, our narcissism is nothing other than that mysterious knowledge rooted in the emotional life, which posits the ultimate in subjectivity as the keystone of objective existence.
"How do I imagine love? This is quite uncomplicated -- very simple and wholesome.
Whether he idealized them, or regarded them as diabolic, a man always interpreted women's behavior too simply and personally, based on some chance reaction to himself.
Whatever happens to me -- I never lose the certainty that behind me arms are open to receive me.
Mourning is not as singular a state of emotional preoccupation as is commonly thought: it is, more precisely, an incessant discourse with the departed one, in order to draw him nearer.
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