In the canon
Essays and Aphorisms
- Form
- Form Aphorisms
- Year
- Year 1851
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 240
Porcupines huddle together in the cold, prick one another with their quills, shuffle apart, and settle at last on the exact distance at which they can bear both the chill and the company. Schopenhauer offers that as an account of human manners, and it is the book's method: the small unanswerable observation that leaves you quietly rearranging your life around it.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption.
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