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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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