If there is a more revealing analogy of life than Schopenhauer’s, we have yet to see it:
Life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets a sight of the right side, and during the second half, of the wrong. The wrong side is not so pretty as the right, but it is more instructive; it shows the way in which the threads have been worked together.
(Quoted on page 102 of Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays, by Arthur Schopenhauer. Cosimo Classics, 2007)
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