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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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