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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things
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