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Quite Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers…
- The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that…
- If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws…
- Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in…
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
- Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control
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