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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is.
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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
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It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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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 great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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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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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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It is a clumsy experiment to make for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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