Fate shuffles the cards and we play. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.