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Human condition Quotes

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact."

"The proper study of mankind is man"

"I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival."

"A person is born with desires. If those desires are not satisfied, he will seek to satisfy them."

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

"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains"

"In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself."

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"

"The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever"

"Old age is life’s parody"

"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us"

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"

"In life, there is so much sadness as well as joy"

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