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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
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 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 we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
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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 first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
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Motives are causes experienced from within.
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