“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome — to be got over.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , book Parerga and Paralipomena

Allerdings ist das Leben nicht eigentlich da, um genossen, sondern um überstanden, abgethan zu werden...
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

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