"A man can be himself only so…" — Arthur Schopenhauer

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Un homme ne peut être lui-même que tant qu'il est seul.

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Translations

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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