We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Faith 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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