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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
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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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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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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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The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
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