To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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About Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the "Philosopher of Pessimism", was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and...

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it,… only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality.… So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

—Maya Banks in No Place to Run

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

—William Goldman

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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