"The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
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