Arthur Schopenhauer: "Will power is to the mind like a…"

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La volonté est pour l'esprit comme un aveugle fort qui porte sur ses épaules un homme boiteux qui peut voir

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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