Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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