We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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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.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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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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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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