“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”
Philipp Mainländer (1841–1876) German poet and philosopher
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Ethik, § 26 ISBN 978-1494963262
“This conflict between the powers of love and chastity … it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, held in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure…. But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emerge — if in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable.”
— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
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