Arthur Schopenhauer: "The shortness of life, so often…"

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La brevedad de la vida, tan a menudo lamentada, puede ser lo mejor de ella.

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“There is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed but to be overcome to be got over”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting ...”

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

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