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Perhaps life's earnestness might often come to destroy the lovers' play, as it had today, perhaps the little song of love might often die out unheard amid the painful, confused tones that assail his heart [as a physician], as it had today.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

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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)

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