We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is a constant process of dying.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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