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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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