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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“To bear life remains, after all, the first duty of the living”
Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', closing paragraphs, trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
Freud justifies a more truthful acknowledgment of death on the ground that it makes life more bearable; an illusion that hinders this is worthless.
Citation: "To bear life remains, after all, the first duty of the living" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', closing paragraphs, trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q9)
