Lou Andreas-Salomé quotes
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“Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?”
-- Lou Andreas-SaloméSource : Lou Andreas-Salomé (1964). “The Freud Journal”, Texas Bookman
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“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
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“If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.”
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“Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.”
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“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
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“You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.”
Source : "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.
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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
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