我々は他人のようになろうとして自己の四分の三を喪失する。 - アルトゥール・ショーペンハウアー［アルトゥル・ショウペンハウエル］ (1788 - 1860)
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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