The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.
— 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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