An idea from The World as Will and Representation

On this view suffering is the normal state of life, not a sign that yours went wrong. The hope that it should be otherwise is the “only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy”.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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