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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes"
"One should use common words to say uncommon things"
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
"The world is my idea."
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills"
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude"
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own"
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness"
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else"
"We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire enough knowledge of the crudities of life"
"There is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed but to be overcome to be got over"
"Life without pain has no meaning"
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