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Title Page
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Epigraph
Preface
1. “We must learn to die.”Adelmina Romanelli, December 8, 1907
2. “No constellation is as steadfast…as a connection between human beings.”Countess Lili Kanitz-Menar, July 16, 1908
3. “The weight of this unexplained…event…presses us…more evenly and more deeply into life.”Elisabeth Freiin Schenk zu Schweinsberg, September 23, 1908
4. “Make it the task of your mourning to explore what he had expected of you, had hoped for you, had wished to happen to you.”Sidonie Freiin Nádherná von Borutín, August 1, 1913
5. “I tend to think of physical pain as…utterly senseless.”Ilse Erdmann, October 9, 1915
6. “Transience is not separation.”Adelheid Franziska von der Marwitz, January 14, 1919
7. “An initiation into one’s own life.”Lou Andreas-Salomé, January 21, 1919
8. “Such a great weight…has the task of forcing us into a deeper, more intimate layer of life so that we may grow out of it all the more vibrant and fertile.”Adelheid Franziska von der Marwitz, September 11, 1919
9. “Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.”Anita Forrer, February 14, 1920
10. “Our grief’s peculiar prerogative…to be…the purest, most consummate coming to our senses.”Erwein Freiherr von Aretin, May 1, 1921
11. “We rest in the pause between two of God’s breaths: for that means: to be in time.”Nanny Wunderly-Volkart, June 2, 1921
12. “But our knowledge of death is enriched…”Reinhold von Walter, June 4, 1921
13. “This unified oneness of her heart…this joyful, heartfelt…way of belonging with the here and now.”Gertrud Ouckama Knoop, January 4, 1922
14. “A relentless way of making us…intimate with the side of our existence that is turned away from us.”Countess Alexandrine Elise Klara Antonia von Schwerin, June 16, 1922
15. “How he proved daily his just and pure endurance and ultimate courage.”Elisabeth von der Heydt, August 17, 1922
16. “This identity of absence and presence that perhaps forms the fundamental equation of our life.”Marguerite Masson, January 4, 1923
17. “Time itself does not ‘console.’ ”Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, January 6, 1923
18. “We gain a hint of the greatest bliss that is ours at this price.”Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, April 12, 1923
19. “The solitude into which you were cast…makes you capable of balancing out the loneliness of others.”Claire Goll, October 22, 1923
20. “For people…permanently caught in sorrow…there is only one liberation.”Johanna Magdalena Schwammberger, December 23, 1923
21. “Destiny’s vagaries pass to us in more ways than only via what is real or visible.”Rudolf Friedrich Burckhardt, April 14, 1924
22. “Life is already so rich on its own that it surpasses all of our means and all of our measures.”Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi, August 21, 1924
23. “We are the transformers of the earth.”Witold Hulewicz, November 13, 1925
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