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Re: Twain and ... Schopenhauer?
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The Nietzsche quote is in the UCal edition of _Autobiography, Vol. 3_ — 4
Sept 1907. These volumes are availalble online at marktwainproject.org and
are word searchable.

Barb



On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >
> > Wonderful stuff.
> >
>
> Well, the sentence beginning, "I have not read Nietzsche or Ibsen, nor any
> other philosopher..." is either in the dictations for the Autobiography or
> it is not, and I am pretty sure it is. ;-)
>
> But Schopenhauer 's idea in that essay, that life is a dream and there is
> only one dreamer, still seems pretty close to home (#44 ending) to me.
>
> DDD
>

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