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p46 ...every animal, even an infusorium, suffers pain, because knowledge, however imperfect, is the true characteristic of animality. At each higher stage of animal life there is a corresponding increase in pain. In the lowest animals it is extremely slight, but even in the highest it nowhere approaches the pain which man is capable of feeling, since even the highest animals lack thought and concepts. And it is right that this capacity for pain should reach its zenith only where, by virtue of the existence of reason, there also exists the possibility of denial of the will: for otherwise it would be nothing but aimless cruelty. p50 ...one might indeed consider that the appropriate from of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de mis\`eres. However strange this may sound it corresponds to the nature of the case, make us see other men in a true light and reminds us of what are the most necessary of all things: tolerance, patience, forbearance and charity, which each of us needs and which each of us therefore owes. p54 As things are, we take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something --- in which case distance and difficulties make our goal look as if it would satisfy us (an illusion which fades when we reach it) --- or when engaged in purely intellectual activity, in which case we are really stepping out of life so as to regard it from outside, like spectators at a play. Even sensual pleasure itself consists in a continual striving and ceases as soon as its goal is reached. Whenever we are not involved in one or other of these things but directed back to existence itself we are overtaken by its worthlessness and vanity and this is the sensation called boredom.引自 1-54
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p68 We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once created out...
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