Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free Quotes

Sigmund Freud: All feminine frailties, and perhaps most human frailties, were foreign to her or had been conquered by her in the course of her life.

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Lou Salome is a phenomenon that scarcely seems possible, a person of genius

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Sigmund Freud: I was transfixed by your empty chair, almost unable to lecture without your presence.

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Lou-how splendid you are! What space you have opened in me. You are not a goal to me. You are a thousand goals. You are everything.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: ...the most intelligent of all women. Sharp as an eagle and courageous as a lion, and yet an utterly feminine girl.

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