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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
"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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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
"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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Personal Development
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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Personal Development
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
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"The reward of life is Joy."
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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
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"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country."
Man
"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
"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
Happiness
"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
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