If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer, p.2, 谷月社
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer, p.2, 谷月社

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