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"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."
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"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."
"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"She couldn't take her eyes from the dancing flame. No, this was so wrong. Candles should be used for meditation for romance. Or on a birthday cake at least.So where was the cake? The present? The song? As he stepped closer to her-as the damned flame got way too close-she started singing. "Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Marcus paused, looking at her in disbelief. See. I knew he didn't have a sense of humor. "Happy birthday, dear Gabi-she lifted her head and blew out the candle-"happy birthday to me."
"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
"If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is."
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"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."
"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."
"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
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