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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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 principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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