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Schopenhauerian
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Texts
On the Sufferings of the WorldSchopenhauer's first and most celebrated essay on pessimism: that suffering is the positive element of existence, pleasure merely its absence, and life a disappointment.The Vanity of ExistenceSchopenhauer's metaphysical essay on the vanity of existence: that time devours all things, that being is perpetually becoming was, and that human life is most honestly described as a mistake.