Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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