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Vienna, 16.2.1922
Dear Doctor,
Our letters crossed again! I am sorry if you have been doubting us for a moment. Yet ‘fishing for compliments’ is not like you. Please do not be unhappy! It is the others who desert me; when I am somebody's friend I remain so for a long time. I have enjoyed the letters to a lady-friend very much and would like to make up a variation on Goethe's words;
Of all the spirits which say yesThe clown is least burdensome to me71
Sincerely yours Freud
Von allen Geistern, die bejahen
1st mir der Schalk am wenigsten zur Last.
(Modified quote from Goethe, Faust I, Prolog im Himmel:
Von allen Geistern, die verneinen,