Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Die Liebe ist der Zustand, wo der Mensch die Dinge am meisten so sieht, wie sie nicht sind. Die illusorische Kraft ist da auf ihrer Höhe, ebenso die versüssende, die verklärende Kraft. Man erträgt in der Liebe mehr als sonst, man duldet Alles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist

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Being in love

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Antichrist

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Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 23.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 23.

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Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Thomas Hardy

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Time
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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source
Tender is the Night
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

Another quote originally in German

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What a Man Is

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Arthur Schopenhauer
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What a Man Is Parerga and Paralipomena
Language
German
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.