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Friday, December 01, 2006
A Gloomy View
Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (tr. T. Bailey Saunders):
There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.