Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
Kabir Bedi
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
Vendela Kirsebom
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
Carl Maria von Weber
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
Kate Winslet
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
Uzo Aduba
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
Sally Hawkins
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
Isabel Allende
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
Xavier Dolan
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I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.
Tony Kushner
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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Arthur Schopenhauer
