we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Engraved portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer, facing left

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

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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).

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