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Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: I can neither live according to models, nor shall I ever be able to provide a model for anyone else. On the contrary, what I shall quite certainly do is to shape my own life according to myself, whatever may come of it. 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.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: As truly as I'd love a friend, I always have loved you, riddling life, whether I've laughed with you or wept, whether you have brought me pleasure or strife. Even in your sorrow I love you, and, when you scatter me through space, I will tear myself out of your arms as a friend from a dear friend's embrace. With all my strength I cling to you! Let all your fire enkindle me. Even in the heat of battle, let me unravel your mysteries. Thousands of years to live and think! In your arms I long to remain. And, when you have no more joy to give -- very well -- you still have your pain.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: Our first experience is, remarkably, of loss. A moment ago we still were everything, undivided; all other existence was indivisible from us. Then we were thrust into being born. We became a residual part of everything, a part which had to strive from then on not to fall into further diminution, which had to assert itself against a contrary world rising ever wider against it, a world into which it had fallen from completeness into an initially depriving emptiness.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: Human life -- ah! life in general -- is poetry. Unconscious of ourselves, we live it -- day by day and piece by piece -- but in its inviolable wholeness it lives, it composes, us. Far from the old phrase: "turn your life into a work of art"; we are not our art work.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: Theory and practice, philosophy and religion, and heaven knows what, how little all that means compared to this one simple thing: the desire for life of a completely healthy, physically harmonious person...

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: "The grave is not the end. From the graves of those we love most and where, with those we love most, are buried all our selfish drives and desires, we must draw the strength to dedicate ourselves wholly and unreservedly to the great purpose of our life: Behold: this is my religion."

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: 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.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: How do I imagine love? This is quite uncomplicated -- very simple and wholesome. I would compare it with things that are least demonic or romantic, like the daily bread that is blessed and stills our hunger, like the stream of air that comes into our home to refresh us. In one word, with that which is most important, most beautiful, and most natural, on which we most depend and about which we do not need to engage in empty rhetoric.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: Do you know what love is? I mean the most profound thing about it? I will tell you: it is the mystery of completely sharing the experience of what is happening to the other person. As if hypnotized, as if replaced or exchanged with that other person, you follow the most subtle stirrings of that other person's soul, enjoying them, experiencing them, in that person. For that reason, they call love a kind of insanity or possession by the other. What is the result? The result is that both persons experience the same thing — that they become identical, so to speak...

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: Don't you think that a great yearning is like the birds' heading south -- a sign that somewhere life is in bloom?

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Le plus sûr, pour que les lois soient respectées, c’est qu’elles soient respectables.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Le plus pressé, ce n’est pas que l’État enseigne, mais qu’il laisse enseigner. Tous les monopoles sont détestables, mais le pire de tous, c’est le monopole de l’enseignement.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: L'État c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre, Seulete m'a mon doulz ami laissiée, Seulete suy, sanz compaignon ne maistre, Seulette suy, dolente et courrouciée.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?

Description: Christine de Pizan quote: Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.