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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
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Personal Development

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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Personal Development

"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
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Personal Development

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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Personal Development

"The reward of life is Joy."
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Personal Development

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
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Personal Development

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness

"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
Journalism

"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
Woman

"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man

"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time

"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Love

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
Family

"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism

"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
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