“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
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(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
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“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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