The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Each day is a little life.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The world is my idea.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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