Quotes by
Lou Andreas-Salomé |
1861-1937 , Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst
She wrote poems, 12 novels and essays. Very beautiful, smart and cultured. Nietzsche, whom she met in 1892, was in love with her, as was the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was 14 years her junior.
In 1911 she met Freud, who introduced her to psychoanalysis. She was one of the first women to engage in psychoanalysis.
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Quotations
| • | So you have no more happiness to give... Well then – there still remains your pain. 5 |
| • | Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. 4 |
| • | For most, love is probably a form of greed; for the rest of mankind, it is the cult of a suffering and masked divinity. |
| • | We can actually say nothing else about our emotions than: in the beginning there was ambivalence. |
| • | Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it. |
| • | What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either. |
| • | The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy. |
| • | I am eternally faithful to the memories; I will never be to men. |
| • | While no road leads from sensual love to spiritual love, many roads lead from the second to the first. |
