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Counsels and Maxims Quotes
To be alone is the fate of all great minds.
[Einsamkeit ist das Los aller hervorragenden Geister.]
Source:
(Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ed. 1895), Chapter II. Our Relation to Ourselves, Section 9, Page 41
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Book:
Counsels and Maxims
Writer:
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genre:
Philosophy
Published:
1851
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