It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing-it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human species is based on.

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Christa Wolf

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Topic

Adaptability

Author

Christa Wolf

Source

Medea

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Poland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wolf, Christa. Medea. Janus Press, 1996, ch. 10.

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Another quote originally in German

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.