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SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ON LIFE

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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

BARUCH SPINOZA ~ ON BEING HAPPY

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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.

(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), JJuedischer Philosoph. Deutsche Schule.  Wolfenbuettel, Germany]

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH

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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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