To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and e…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, p.226, Simon and Schuster
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