Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer Modern

Pessimist philosophy

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From 'The World as Will and Representation'

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1818

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Strange & Unusual

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