Theodor Adorno: "Cultural Criticism and Society"
“Once you have suffered sufficiently,” she told an interviewer after the publication of “Aftermath,” her memoir about the demise of her marriage, “the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous.”
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“Once you have suffered sufficiently,” he told an interviewer after the publication of “La Vita Nuova,” his memoir about dealing with the death of his beloved Beatrice, “the idea of making up Giovanni and Gianna and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous.”
“Once you have suffered sufficiently,” he told an interviewer after the publication of “Notes from Underground,” his memoir, in the form of fiction, about the painfulness of his Siberian exile, “the idea of making up Ivan and Ivana and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous.”
“Once you have suffered sufficiently,” he told an interviewer after the publication of “Lycidas”, an elegy for his closest friend, who died in a shipwreck, “the idea of making up Adam and Eve and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous.”
“Once you have suffered sufficiently,” he told an interviewer after the publication of “Good-Bye to All That,” his memoir of World War I, in which he was wounded and left with long-lasting post-traumatic stress disorder, “the idea of making up Claudius and Messalina and having them do things to other people seems utterly ridiculous.”