We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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