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"Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?"
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"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."
"Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find."
"A joyful life, life of contentment."
"Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job."
"Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation."
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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind."
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