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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight a woman at eighteen.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
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