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

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the t...more

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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with ...more

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

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Life presents itself as a continual deception, in small matters as well as in great. If it has promised, it does not keep its word, unless to show how...more

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantl...more

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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to w...more

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If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom...more

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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sy...more

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as bor...more