Author: Schopenhauer

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• Anne Sexton (1)
  • IN: The Complete Poems (1999) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philospher. He must be like Sophocle's Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigble enquiry, even when he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry in our heart the Jocasta who begs Oedipus for God's sake not to inquire further...
    FROM: Letter from Schopenhauer to Goethe, November 1815, (1815), Letter, Poland
• Will Self (1)
  • IN: Dorian (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is an unconscious appositeness in the use of the word person to designate the human individual...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany