Love the Old, Live for the New

In Theodor Fontane’s last novel, Der Stechlin (1899), Melusine von Barby says to Pastor Lorenzen: Alles Alte, soweit es Anspruch darauf hat, sollen wir lieben, aber für das Neue sollen wir recht eigentlich leben. (Everything old, as far as it has a claim to it, we should love. But for the new we should truly live.) The old earns love only soweit es Anspruch darauf hat, as far as it has a claim to it.

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