To affirm all your desires is to condemn yourself to never being satisfied.

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Affirming desire assumes that, by following it, one can reach a kind of fullness: we want, we obtain, we enjoy.
But a satisfied desire does not die out, it shifts: no sooner is the wanted thing reached than a new lack arises, and the pleasure of having gives way to the desire for something else. compared the insatiable soul to a leaky jar, filled without ever being full.
Whoever says yes to all their desires is therefore not the master of their life, but the servant of the next lack: they run, and what they pursue draws back by just as much.

Therefore So unreserved affirmation does not lead to the promised fullness, but to a restlessness that never closes.

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The pendulum of lack and boredom

Schopenhauer saw the life of willing as a pendulum: as long as a desire is unmet, we suffer from the lack; once it is met, boredom creeps in, and we must desire anew to escape it.
Pleasure, on this view, is never more than a brief respite between two pains, never a state in which one could rest.

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