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Book cover for Studies in Pessimism (Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)
This explains the fact that we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
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Charlotte Eriksson
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
Charlotte Eriksson

D.H. Lawrence
“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Arthur Schopenhauer
“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

James Joyce
“What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world if he suffer the loss of his immortal soul?”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Lang Leav
“The Wanderer

What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.

She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.

A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.

A lonely kite
lost in flight—
someone once
had flown.”
Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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