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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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 the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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