Of every event in our life we can say only for one moment that it is ; for ever after, that it was . Every evening we are poorer by a day.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Studies in Pessimism, translated by T. Bailey Saunders (1891); Exact wording and attribution checked. Philosophical pessimism: reflections on time, transient experience, anticipation, and the present. These are the author’s philosophical judgments.
- Studies in Pessimism, translated by T. Bailey Saunders (1891)
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