Arthur Schopenhauer in: Bobby Joe Leggett Late Stevens: The Final Fiction, LSU Press, 2005, p. 33.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer on Pendulum
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About Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).
About Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).
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