We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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