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"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"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."
"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
"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."
"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
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"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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