“Can you not be cheerful even without his love? Do you have to sink into despondency without this love? Can you not live without this prop? For that is the question: can you not walk upright without leaning on this staff? Or is it only that you cannot resolve to give it up. Or is it both? – You mustn’t go on expecting letters that don’t arrive.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nachlass, MS 133 (27 November 1946)
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