Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and bore…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). 101 Facts of life, p.66, Publishdrive
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