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

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Source : Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

Arthur Schopenhauer

#Existentialism Quotes #Episodes Quotes #Nothingness Quotes

“Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.”
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“I'd say I am partial to women.”
“He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe”
“We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.”
“The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.”
“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”
“I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces...If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?...Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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