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Schopenhauer says something—unsurprisingly—very pessimistic indeed on this matter. Perhaps even to the point of rudeness or arrogance towards the layperson: “Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

It seems that Schopenhauer often not only did not expect to be understood but he, at least sometimes, completely gave up on it.

Of course, he had his own faults but that’s another matter.

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