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• To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

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  Past, Long, Expectations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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  Sacrifice, London, Monogamy

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• My body and my will are one.

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  Body

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.96, 谷月社

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• He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

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  Men, Two, Three

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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  Philosophical, Science, Data

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• Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Matter

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• ...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

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  Important, Stand Alone, Ends

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.20, Cosimo Classics

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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  Fear, Educational, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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  Language, Difficulty, Translations

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• Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Passion, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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  Philosophical, Not Giving Up, Never Giving Up

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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Time

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• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

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  Men, Mind, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

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  Men, Hands, Soul

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

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  Life, Beautiful, Distance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.33, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

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  Life, Powerful, Space

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

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  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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  Art, Work, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.27, Publishdrive

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• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

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  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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  Blessing, Boredom, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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  Real, Judging, First Impression

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• The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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  Laughter, Philosophy, Real

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• Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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  Stars, May, Meteors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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