My interest in the evolution of man led me to study myself more closely. After all, I am an ordinary person. The laws that govern human nature, therefore, should be discoverable in me.
With the assistance of a few good books, I confirmed what most of us intuitively know: Man is a miserable wretch. Are we doomed, as Schopenhauer maintains, to oscillate between distress and boredom?
Enter into my laboratory. I am going to dissect human nature and show that the only way to happiness is to study yourself so that you become convinced of the necessity of forgetting yourself.
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