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Eugenio Montale

"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."

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"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."

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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."

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"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

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"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."

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"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

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"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."

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"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."

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"You are as happy as you chose to be. So chose to be happy."

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"The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."

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"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."

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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
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"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
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"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
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"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
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"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
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"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."
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"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
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