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Arthur Schopenhauer
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome /to be got over."
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Doubt
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"Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately"
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Books And Reading
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"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
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German Philosopher Inexplicable
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"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience."
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Conscience Vengeance
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"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."
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German Philosopher
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people"
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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom"
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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German Philosopher Human Nature
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"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
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German Philosopher
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"It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do"
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; 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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Freedom
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"With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy"
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Ability
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"That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine."
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"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."
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Marriage
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
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Fame German Philosopher
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"Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible"
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Art
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"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting"
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Business
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism."
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