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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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