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arthur schopenhauer
losing oneself
in the object
[We] devote the whole power of our mind to perception,
sink ourselves completely therein, and let our whole consciousness be
filled by the calm contemplation of the natural object actually present,
whether it be a landscape, a tree, a rock, a crag, a building, or
anything else. We lose ourselves entirely in this object ... we forget
our individuality, our will, and continue to exist as pure subject, as
clear mirror of the object, so that it is as though the object alone
existed without anyone to perceive it, and thus we are no longer able to
separate the perceiver from the perception, but the two have become one.
Every man takes the limits of his own
field of vision for the limits of the world.
All art seeks an answer to the question: What is life?
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