„The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.“
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
p. 107
„Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.“
— Anacreonte, Odes, XXIX. (XXVII.), 1.
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