Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

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"富は海水のようなものです飲めば飲むほど喉が渇き名声も同じです"

Translations

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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