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"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
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"Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama."

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

"You don't need much to give. Give what you have."

"Candy always tastes better when the expectations are high."

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

"Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."
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"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."

"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
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