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"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"You can love again."
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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."
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"Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"I want to live quietly."
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"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth

"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading

"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
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"I love devils."
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