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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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