If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence
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